Police respond to woman threatening suicide with knives, Jersey City NJ


Police responded to a woman threatening to commit suicide at an apartment near Newport Parkway. She reportedly has a history of using kitchen knives on herself and her husband. Officers are checking if she currently has any weapons and coordinating with emergency units.
Audio|Source: Jersey City Police
02:45
Transcript:
00:00
Can you head over to near Newport Parkway, near Newport Parkway? I have it as apartment 3104.
00:07
MC's notified.
00:08
I got this suicidal female, threatening to commit suicide.
00:14
What's the other?
00:20
393, if we can just get a check on the last run in the suite package.
00:29
The westbound at Grove and Columbus.
00:38
They don't worry that's up a bonus.
00:46
All right, East Sergeant, you said that address was near Newport Parkway. I'm going to make my way over there. See if you can give them a call back and see if there's any weapons or what are the circumstances with that.
01:01
I've got the call-taker trying to get more information on the line right now.
01:07
Okay, let's see. Thank you.
01:13
Hey, Travis, can we open up Green Street going north from Morgan, the Trump Building, and we can maybe funnel some traffic out north on Green to Washington?
01:27
Yes, sir. Anything on Washington coming north down, we're good.
01:33
I received that.
01:36
Whoever's at...
01:39
Who's ever wrapped Pearl and Green? Just stand by there still breaking everything down, the stage, and everything, so just keep that shut.
01:45
They won't be able to come north yet, but we're going to open up northbound on Green at Morgan.
01:53
Peace Sergeant.
01:56
Peace, Sergeant.
01:59
MC's alleging that they're staging and from the call takers she said that this female has used kitchen knives on herself and the husband in the past.
02:09
ESU, Channel 3.
02:11
Can you do a history check as well?
02:14
It was a suicide call for yesterday.
02:18
And what was the, uh, this ball on that?
02:23
I can only see that there's a call, you can't click into it. Let me see the supervisor.
02:34
All right, let's see, then let's just verify to see if speaking with the husband, if she does have weapons right now,
02:41
and we'll get a notification to the ESU as well.
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Location mentioned:
Near Newport Pkwy, Jersey City, NJ 07310
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