Man who jumped from Bear Mountain Bridge took a cab

FORT MONTGOMERY – The man who jumped to his death from the Bear Mountain Bridge on Thursday morning took a cab to get there.
State Police identified the man as Dalton Tompkins, 24, of Peekskill.  Tompkins told the taxi driver to head over the bridge and as they crossed, he instructed her to pull over at which point he ran over to the side and jumped into the Hudson River.
His body was recovered by the Stony Point and Fort Montgomery marine patrols and transported to Nyack Hospital where he was pronounced dead.