A Florida bridge tender has been arrested for manslaughter, one month after a 79-year-old grandmother fell to her death from a drawbridge that began rising while she was still walking on it. Police said surveillance video and deleted text messages between the bridge tender and her supervisor showed she lied to investigators.
Highlights
- Police arrested 43-year-old Artissua Lafay Paulk at her home Thursday afternoon.
- Police said surveillance video and deleted text messages between Paulk and her supervisor showed she lied in her statement to police.
- The arrest stems from the Feb.
- 6 incident, where 79-year old grandmother Carol Wright fell to her death from the Royal Park Bridge in Palm Beach, Florida.
- A man on a skateboard desperately tried to rescue Wright and help her hang onto the bridge, but she fell to the concrete landing below.
- Police had described the bridge tender as “distraught,” the Palm Beach Post reported.