Springdale police, firefighters respond to suicide call

SPRINGDALE -- Firefighters and police responded to a call Tuesday related to a man's death.

A suicide/attempted suicide call came in at 4 p.m. Tuesday at 580 E. Randall Wobbe Lane, according to the Springdale Police Department's online dispatch log. Rodney Valdez, battalion chief with the Springdale Fire Department, confirmed the call was related to the incident.

Valdez was unable to release the man's name or age because of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, but he said the man was an adult.

The incident occurred along a tree line to the north of a grassy field. The field lays just north of an apartment complex on Randall Wobbe Lane. The apartment complex sits on the west side of the railroad tracks.

The body lay still on the ground among the brush. A blue cord with a loop on it hung from a tree branch.

A woman in jeans and a black and white striped top ran through a wooded area separating the field to the south from the area where the body was located. She tried to make her way to the body. The deceased man's uncle said the woman was the deceased man's mother. "Oh, my baby," she said.

The mother and uncle knelt on the ground next to the body and held each other while the mother cried. Firefighters covered the body with a white sheet.

NW News on 11/25/2015

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