Welfare check after suicide threat sent by text


Dispatch audio requesting a welfare check at an apartment after a caller received a text from her boyfriend saying he intended to kill himself by taking pills; no contact since the message.
Audio|Source: Tompkins County Sheriff and Ithaca Police Dispatch
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Transcript:
(name withheld), 1217, take a welfare check, 1895, Mecklenburg Road, apartment 11. Caller's looking at a wellness check on her boyfriend, (name withheld). She received a text message from him at 5:30 saying he wanted to kill himself and take a bunch of pills. She has not heard from him this morning since the text message. Got it.
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Location mentioned:
Near Mecklenburg Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850
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