By Pauline Repard
The San Diego Union-Tribune
SAN DIEGO — A man jumped off a second-floor hotel walkway onto the roof of an ambulance in the Midway District early Tuesday because he thought medics weren’t going to stop and tend his girlfriend, authorities said.
The man, who told medics he had been smoking meth, was not injured. His girlfriend, unconscious possibly from a drug overdose, was taken to a hospital. No word on her condition was available.
An ambulance was sent to Heritiage Inn on Channel Way, off Sports Arena Boulevard, about 5:30 a.m., San Diego fire spokesman Lee Swanson said.
He said the crew passed the entrance a little so the back of the ambulance would line up with a spot to unload the gurney. The man who was waiting for help for his girlfriend saw them pass the entry and he thought they were going to leave, Swanson said.
The man was on the second-floor open walkway and jumped off, landing on the ambulance roof, so he could get the medics’ attention, Swanson said. The man rolled down the windshield and onto the hood.
Then he threatened to kill the medics, so they called police, Swanson said. They got him calmed down though, as they started CPR on the unconscious woman. They took her to a trauma center and police took the man into custody.
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