An unidentified minor female apparently committed suicide on Saturday by jumping off of the pedestrian bridge at Bradshaw’s Crossing at the entrance to River Islands.

According to Lathrop Police Services, the name of the girl has not yet been released, and no other information is available at this time.

First responders received a call on Saturday morning and arrived to find the girl in the roadway below – apparently using the pedestrian access bridge that provides safe passage from one side of the busy thoroughfare to the other to gain access to the elevated platform.

The bridge was closed while first responders rendered aid and cleaned up the scene before it was opened to traffic.

She was transported to an area hospital where she was later pronounced dead.

Mental health professionals have been vocal about the potential distress that the COVID-19 pandemic can cause in young people who are seeing such an extreme change to their daily lives – especially the removal of the social outlet that school provides young people and the relationships that can be beneficial. While the stay-at-home order has the potential to impact anybody, the fact that young people can be trapped in environments that are not positive ones – fears of an increase in domestic violence and sexual molestation have become prevalent – has prompted some local clinics to provide free counseling to adults, teenagers, and children who are struggling with the sweeping changes.

Earlier this month the City of Oakdale was rocked by the suicide of two young female students, and before that a girl in Stockton that was known as an outgoing and active softball player took her own life to the shock of her family and friends. In the first two weeks of April, five young people took their lives in the Northern San Joaquin/Southern Sacramento Valley region prompting schools to provide mental health services to students that are having a hard time.

To contact reporter Jason Campbell email jcampbell@mantecabulletin.com or call 209.249.3544.