Seneca Valley alum dies after bridge jump
PITTSBURGH — A 2011 Seneca Valley graduate died Sunday night after jumping off the Hot Metal Bridge in Pittsburgh.
Austin Bible, 25, died after jumping off the bridge into the Monongahela River with two other men, who were not injured.
Authorities responded around 8:40 p.m. and found three males in the water. One of the men, later identified as Bible, appeared injured and was having problems swimming to shore, according to Pittsburgh police.
River Rescue officers pulled him onto their boat and began treating him, police said. Bible was taken to the hospital in critical condition and pronounced dead at 9:50 p.m.
Police said the men were not attempting suicide.
Bible lived in Pittsburgh's South Side, but grew up in Cranberry Township and graduated from Seneca Valley Senior High School in 2011.
Jim Lucot, a Seneca Valley social studies teacher who had Bible in class, described him as quiet, but “very respectful, very nice.”
Lucot kept in touch with Bible on social media after he graduated and said it seemed like he was blossoming after high school.
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner's office has not yet released a cause of death.
Austin Bible's obituary will run in Wednesday's paper for those interested.
Read the full story in the Butler Eagle.
