Stephen Beckman of Rancho Santa Margarita survived one suicide attempt. His plunge last weekend in front of his mother was fatal, but his legacy survives.
Stephen Beckman of Rancho Santa Margarita survived one suicide attempt. His plunge last weekend in front of his mother was fatal, but his legacy survives.
Stephen Beckman tried to kill himself a year ago, but defied the odds and survived his plunge off the Santa Margarita Parkway Bridge.
On Saturday, the odds gave in.
He lifted himself onto the railing of the Oso Parkway Bridge and dropped over the side.
In front of his mother.
She was trying to coax him into her car. There was no fighting, nothing physical. There wasn't even an argument. Please, just get in the car.
And then her 22-year-old son disappeared, landing in the bushes of Trabuco Creek.
It was that landing that authorities said prevented him from dying instantly. Remarkably, he still had a pulse and was still breathing after the 96-foot fall. Orange County Fire Authority personnel airlifted him to Mission Hospital.
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