Woman Who Leaped From 6-Story Salt Lake City Parking Garage Has Died

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Chelci Hone died after jumping from a six-story building in Salt Lake City last Friday. Photo Courtesy: Legacy.com Kirsten Fullmer

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 18, 2016 (Gephardt Daily) — A woman who was critically injured last week in a leap from a six-story parking garage in downtown Salt Lake City did not survive her injuries.

Chelci Hone’s mother, Kirsten Fullmer, contacted Gephardt Daily to say the 26-year-old suffered from mental illness and had been attempting to get back into treatment.

On March 11, Salt Lake City police investigators said Hone was seen at about 7:45 p.m. standing on the top floor of the parking garage at 45 E. 300 South. Moments later she appeared to jump from the structure and fell to the sidewalk below.

She was taken by ambulance to the hospital in critical condition.

An obituary posted online at legacy.com indicates she died the same day.

6 COMMENTS

  1. Chelci was my beautiful daughter and she suffered from mental health issues for over a decade. In spite of her burden she worked hard at her job and was kind and loving to everyone. In November she was turned away from her long term clinic, Valley Mental Health, because she turned 26 and went off her father’s health insurance. She struggled to find help but no one would see her without insurance. We told Valley we would pay for her treatment but she was turned away multiple times. the clinic would not take cash or credit payments, only patients with insurance. She made too little to afford to buy insurance and too much to be on Medicaid. Since utah refused the extra funds to cover people like my daughter she had nowhere to turn. She finally checked herself into LDS hospital last week in search of help but by that point she had been rationing her meds and was very discouraged. The thought of starting over from scratch, opening up to a new doctor only to be dumped by another facility was too much for her to bear. When she left the hospital she walked to the garage and jumped. Last knight was her viewing and her doctor feom Valley Mental Health stood beside my beautiful baby’s casket with tears in her eyes and said she would have been happy to see Chelci if she had known. How is this type of treatment is acceptable?? My daughter was buried today because of a political move by the state and the cold heartedness of Valley Mental Health. My she finally find the peace she deserves and may Valley Mental Health rot in blazes.

  2. Another sad story of how Obama care has ruined a whole family. I’m a friend of a family friend and I feel their pain. But this injustice cuts me to a whole new level. I can’t go into the level of sadness that this brings. I do not know how to express those feelings after all I’ve seen in 22 yrs of military service. But I do know how to feel angrier and sadness.

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