Lawyer's leap adds to puzzle
On the fifth floor, ‘it was just like a linebacker charged'

 
By Augie Frost and Ken Raymond
Published: September 28, 2007

An attorney accused of robbing an Edmond pharmacy to obtain painkillers leaped from a ledge outside OU Medical Center 's Presbyterian Tower on Thursday after another apparent suicide attempt earlier in the day.

Robert Behlen , 50, was in serious condition at the hospital's trauma center soon after the fall, said Allen Poston , hospital spokesman. His condition later was downgraded to critical.

Behlen, a fathe...


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