Feb 06 2014
Staff Report
On Wednesday afternoon, authorities found a Latino man lying face down in the Laguna Madre after he jumped off the highest point of the Queen Isabella Causeway. Officers with the Coast Guard discovered the man’s body in the water and observed that he was still breathing.
He was then rushed to Valley Medical Regional Center in Brownsville where he was later pronounced dead.
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