A juvenile, possibly around 16 years old, was taken to the hospital after he jumped from the second floor near Macy’s at the 24200 block of Town Center Drive on Tuesday evening, according to officials with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station.
The boy allegedly punched a woman he did not know before jumping, according to Shirley Miller, spokeswoman for the station. The woman was medically treated on the scene but was not taken to the hospital.
The boy was alive but unconscious, Miller added.
He was transported to the hospital at 6:50 p.m., according to Jonathan Torres, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Firefighters were dispatched to an injury call for “advance life support” services at 6:32 p.m., arriving five minutes later, Torres added.
Miller said it was unknown if it was a suicide attempt, but the investigation is ongoing by the station’s Juvenile and Gangs Unit.
She added that once the boy recovers, he could face a battery charge.
One witness, Shari Schlaman, and her daughter, Claire, were in Macy’s at the second-floor shoe department when the incident happened.
Schlaman recalled two men beginning to walk into Macy’s and a woman yelling “call 911,” “get off me,” and “call security.”
“When she started yelling that, we were, like, ‘OK, let’s, let’s see what’s going on, and then someone said, ‘He has a gun.’ And when that happened, we were like, ‘OK, we’re out,’” Schlaman said.
It turned out that the boy did not have a gun, Miller confirmed on Wednesday.
Schlaman said she and her daughter ran out of the exit near the Lucille’s restaurant and informed people about the incident. She added that they ran back to their car.
“We started leaving, and I said, ‘I’m going to turn down by Cheesecake Factory, and I’m going to go by Macy’s one more time, and go through the parking garage,’ and just see what’s, if there’s anything else, whatever,” Schlaman said. “And that’s when we saw three (sheriff’s) cars all lit up. They were looking. They did not have their sirens going, but they had their lights going.”
