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Student
jumps off bridge, killed
Staff Reports
Computers and business.
Those were two practices Ryan Quintrell had hoped to combine
for the real world and his master's.
But, it was not to be. The 21-year-old Cal State Long Beach
senior was killed and two others survived after they jumped
off a 70-foot bridge early Friday.
The body of the Anaheim resident, a business major with a
computer engineering minor, was recovered shortly after 5:30
a.m., said police Sgt. Steve Filippini.
Authorities were notified about 1 a.m. that three men jumped
off the Davies Bridge near Pacific Coast Highway, and only
two surfaced.
Authorities said alcohol may have been a factor and do not
believe the men, all in their 20s, were suicidal. Jumping
off the bridge has been considered a "historic rite of
passage" for teens and young adults, Officer Skip Kerr
said.
Quintrell and his friends had gone out to dinner in Belmont
Shores after taking a calculus test, said Michael Quintrell,
Ryan's father.
"On the way back, I guess they tried to take a dive,"
Michael said from his Anaheim home. "I guess a couple
of his friends have done that before and unfortunately it
cost him his life."
Ryan, a known surfer and snowboarder, was very close to his
family. He would often spend time with his cousins and friends
from his church, said Michael, a manager at Raytheon technical
services.
A commuter to campus, Ryan worked at a Costco in Garden Grove,
reported the Long Beach Press-Telegram.
He had graduated from Loara High School in 1998, where he
played for the varsity football, baseball and track teams,
reported the OC Register.
Quintrell had lived with his mother, father and sister.
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