Police Officer's Overpass Jump a Heroic Gesture to Save Boy

An off-duty police officer jumped off an overpass Friday to give aid to a boy she saw jump off the New York overpass as she was driving nearby.

Hastings-on-Hudson police officer Jessie Ferreira Cavallo was driving to work near Exit 9 on the parkway northbound when she saw a boy run against traffic and then jump about 30 feet into an empty storage yard below, News 12 Westchester reported.

Cavallo grabbed a first aid kit and jumped after the boy.

“I was shocked,” she said, News 12 reported. “I knew I had to stop and do something.”

The officer gave the boy, who was a student at a nearby school for vulnerable children, CPR and with the help of another bystander, put a neck brace on him, splinted his arm, and cleared his airway of blood, News 12 reported.

The boy, who was reported to be 12 or 13, was taken to Westchester Medical Center with broken bones and other injuries but is expected to survive, Westchester police spokesperson Kieran O’Leary said Monday, the Rockland/Westchester Journal News reported.

Cavallo said over the weekend that she planned to visit the boy on Sunday in the hospital.

“I just hope that he’s doing well,” she said, the Journal News reported. “I just want to give him a hug.”

There was no word from the Andrus School, where the boy came from, about why he jumped off the overpass, News 12 reported.

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