Negotiaters Talk Jumper from Downtown High Rise

LOS ANGELES, CA -- After a nearly four-hour negotiation, a woman who was threatening to jump to her death from a downtown building agreed to surrender to authorities and was taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, police said tonight.

The drama on the 25th floor of a building under construction at 801 S. Olive St. in downtown Los Angeles began at about 6:15 p.m., according to Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Officer Ricardo Hernandez.

Police and firefighters began negotiating with the woman to try and convince her not to kill herself, Hernandez and fire department spokeswoman Margaret Stewart said.

Just after 10 p.m., authorities convinced the woman to step away from the ledge and surrender to police, according to Hernandez.

"She was talked down from committing suicide," Hernandez said. "Then she was transported to a hospital for an evaluation."

City News Service and Patch Staffer Alexander Nguyen contributed to this story.