Peekskill Man's Fatal Bear Mountain Bridge Jump Shocks Girlfriend, Family
When Dalton Tompkins, 24, of Peekskill took a cab to Bear Moutain Bridge on Thursday, March 9, asked the driver to stop near the middle of the span and then ran and jumped to his death, not one of his friends or family could imagine it happening.
The young man who loved his job as a waste handler at Wheelabrator in Peekskill, and worked 60 to 70 hours a week to support his 4-month-old daughter Christina, had only hours before been receiving help for a longtime drug problem, said his girlfriend Mary Goldsmith.
Goldsmith, a graduate of Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, said she never h…
