Paramedics took a woman, who witnesses identified as a Seattle University student, to a local hospital Tuesday afternoon, after she pushed herself from a second-floor Pigott Atrium railing and landed feet-first on the floor below.
"The student was alert and talking with DPS and 911 officers, as she was transported by ambulance to a local hospital," wrote Mike Sletten, director of Public Safety, in a statement e-mailed to The Spectator Tuesday night.
Both Seattle University Department of Public Safety officers and Seattle Police officers responded to the incident. According to students in Pigott at the time, the officers tried to persuade the student to come down from the railing for about 30 minutes before she jumped at approximately 1:10 p.m.
A friend of the student had been leaning over a nearby second-floor railing, encouraging her to come back from the ledge, according to Allison Pollack, junior English and environmental studies major, who arrived in the Atrium shortly before the student's fall.
"I heard people screaming and then heard a dropping noise," said Sadie Kim, senior international business major, who was exiting first floor of Pigott at the time of the incident.
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