TUPELO, MISS. (WCBI) – Corporals Jay Marshall and John Price are both school resource officers at Tupelo High School and both were on campus a few weeks before summer break, when they were notified about a student who had left campus.

“By the time we make it out, she is walking up the embankment,” Corporal Marshall said.

The student was at the top of the bridge, threatening to jump to the street below. That is when both officers put their CIT training to use. The first step is to try and calm the person and de-escalate the situation.

“It puts us on a level where they are, we try and figure out what is wrong, how they got where they are right now,” Marshall said.

Police shut down traffic as Officers Marshall and Price were talking with the student. After about twenty minutes, Price was

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