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This is the incredible moment a Connecticut cop saved a suicidal man from leaping to his death.
Police bodycam footage captured Officer Justin Martin racing up the stairs of a six-story elderly care home in Hamden, Connecticut.
As he reached the top floor and burst through the doors, the footage shows an unnamed man who was standing on the rooftop, ready to jump.
'Hey, hey, hey!' Martin yelled out to the man before running forward to grab hold of the man just as he went to throw himself off the ledge.
The cop was able to haul the suicidal individual back over the side, to safety.
The man, who was described as 'emotionally disturbed,' continued to fight the officer during the rescue but was eventually taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital for evaluation, Fox 61 reports.
Police had been called to the Whiney Center on April 21, for reports of a resident fighting with other people.
Martin had been speaking with staff and an elderly male resident on the third floor, when the 'emotionally disturbed' man fled up the stairs.
The officer has chased him upstairs where he made the incredible rescue