According to authorities, a guy was detained in New York City on Monday after he allegedly dove into a reflecting pool at the 9/11 Memorial.
According to the NYPD, the incident started at around 1:30 p.m. EDT when police got a call to the north pool at the 9/11 Memorial and discovered the 33-year-old had dived in.
The unnamed man, who had injuries to his left leg as well as his back in the incident, was assisted into an ambulance by an emergency medical services team that also responded, according to the authorities.
Charges are pending, according to officials, and he was transferred to Bellevue Hospital due to non-life-threatening injuries.
A Port Authority spokeswoman described the man as an “apparently emotionally disturbed person.”
Later, it was observed that security officers had put up chains around the pool to deter others from diving in.
The memorial has two pools, each in the footprints of the Twin Towers that were destroyed after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Each pool, according to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum website, is 30 feet deep when it enters a basin and 20 feet deeper when it enters a “central void.”
Around the memorial pools, bronze plaques bearing the names of the 2,983 fatalities from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as the victims of the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, are inscribed.