{"id":425099,"date":"2026-08-06T03:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/425099\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T03:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:50:09","slug":"person-threatening-to-jump-from-hillcrest-overpass-closes-sr-163","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/425099\/","title":{"rendered":"Person threatening to jump from Hillcrest overpass closes SR-163"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person threatening to jump from a Hillcrest overpass onto state Route 163 temporarily caused a full shutdown of the freeway before officers safely talked him down on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Police received a report around 4:25 p.m. that a person was threatening to jump at 9th Street and University Avenue, said San Diego police Officer Abbey Langley.<\/p>\n<p>About 20 minutes later, officers at the scene closed down both the northbound and southbound sides of SR-163, as well as University Avenue between 9th and 10th avenues.<\/p>\n<p>Around 5:45 p.m., police said that the incident had been safely resolved and all roadways were reopening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraffic will be returning to normal flow shortly,\u201d officers said in a statement posted on X. \u201cThank you for your patience and understanding while officers worked the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person threatening to jump from a Hillcrest overpass onto state Route 163 temporarily caused a full shutdown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,138,14768,181,23,100,74,84,76,75],"class_list":["post-425099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-hillcrest","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}