SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities pulled a Nevada man back from the edge of a Northern California casino parking garage and handcuffed him as a suicide risk before he broke free and jumped to his death.

Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies called to Graton Resort and Casino near Santa Rosa early Monday found the man standing on a wall on top of a five-floor garage, talking to his wife nearby.

It appeared 24-year-old Geoffrey Wise Bertagnolli, of Gardnerville, Nevada, and his wife had been living out of their car recently, sheriff’s spokeswoman Misti Wood told the Press Democrat.

“The deputies started talking to the man, trying to figure out what was going on in his life and what was making him upset,” Wood said.

She said deputies tried to convince him to step back from the edge.

After about 30 minutes, Bertagnolli became distracted, and deputies grabbed him off the wall, Wood said. They handcuffed him and prepared to take him to a hospital or crisis stabilization unit.

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As deputies were walking Bertagnolli to a patrol car, he broke free, ran back toward the edge and leaped over it, still handcuffed, the sheriff’s office said. He died instantly.

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Information from: The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, http://www.pressdemocrat.com

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The man’s body was found near the parking garage on Sunday afternoon. The man may have had substance abuse issues, the spokeswoman said. The casino is cooperating with law enforcement in the. An Atlantic City police officer is being hailed as a hero for stopping a suicidal man from jumping from the top of a casino parking garage. Dan Koob reports. Jorden said the man jumped from the seventh floor of the parking garage. He was found by an employee of the casino. The incident occurred sometime before 6 a.m. A spokesman at the Lake County. The body of William L. Mauldin III was discovered Aug. 2, 1999, in a swath of rocky dirt next to New York-New York hotel-casino's 10-story parking garage. In the 32-year-old disc jockey's pocket.