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New Orleans Bridge Jumper Identified
Authorities have released the name of a man who jumped Monday from the Crescent City Connection Bridge that joins the east and west banks of New Orleans. The Orleans Corner's Office says Heath Schubert died from blunt-force trauma to his head and chest when he hit the bridge and drowned in the Mississippi River.
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