By Carla Zanoni
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — A guard on the George Washington Bridge was fired Tuesday after failing to stop a 19-year-old from attempting suicide Monday night, according to the Daily News.
Angel Laboy was accused of negligence for not noticing that a college student had walked passed his booth and climbed to the top of the bridge in an attempt to jump 600 feet into the water, the paper said.
Police coaxed the boy to safety from his perch after receiving a call from his friend’s family who said he was on the bridge contemplating suicide, reported the News.
Laboy worked on the bridge as an employee of FJC Security Services, a Manhattan-based company contracted by the Port Authority.
It is unclear whether the Authority or FJC have policies that require guards to come to the aid of potential jumpers from the bridge.
Neither the Port Authority or FJC Security Services returned calls for comment.
Last September, two guards were also fired from the same firm when they were caught sleeping while at work in photographs posted on the North Bergen, N.J., blog Cliffview Pilot.
Earlier this week, DNAinfo reported that the Port Authority is looking into additional methods to curtail suicides from occurring on the George Washington Bridge.
