Loudon Road Bridge Jumper Taken To Concord Hospital

CONCORD, NH — A homeless man was taken to Concord Hospital after reportedly jumping off the Loudon Road bridge into the Merrimack River on Monday.

Concord police were called to the area around 2:15 p.m. after witnesses reported seeing a man jumping off the bridge into the river. The first arriving officer reported hearing a man’s voice under the bridge and said he thought it might be Gordon Robert Hollingworth, a local homeless man with psyche issues.

A second officer arrived, and both went down to the river’s edge to speak to the man.

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“We can hear him singing underneath there,” the officer told dispatch.

Hearing there was a possible jumper, Concord fire and rescue teams headed to the area. Police also confirmed it was Hollingworth, 28, a homeless man now located in Concord, according to scanner chatter. Officers guided him back up to the bridge to pick up his stuff.

EMTs medically evaluated him before clearing him. Police then decided to take him into protective custody due to “a combination of mental health and drugs,” one officer said. Hollingworth was then taken to Concord Hospital by police.

In the past two years, Hollingworth has been arrested on several criminal threatening charges, including a felony count, as well as disorderly conduct, domestic violence, simple assault, assault on a police officer, stalking, resisting arrest or detention, and breach of bail charges. He was accused of threatening to kill students at the Concord High School prom downtown in 2022.

He is due in Merrimack County Superior Court on Wednesday for a hearing-motion to revoke bail and a dispositional conference hearing after being arrested on felony criminal threatening and resisting charges after a late May incident.

More than a decade ago, Hollingworth was falsely accused of making a gun threat against a girl while students were filming a movie inside Concord High School in late April 2013.

The city’s SWAT team and area officers were called to the school and searched room by room. They reported hearing explosions and gunshots inside the school — which were later determined to be the students filming their movie. After clearing the school, the victim was interviewed and recanted her story.

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