For years, former Coronado Fire Chief Wayne Strickland has been hosting a Coronado Bridge suicide memorial service. On June 9, around 50 people showed up to remember the lives lost, tell their stories and exchange hugs and prayers.

After a concluding prayer, attendees threw flowers out into the bay, remembering the lives of those who jumped. Staff photo by Kylie Capuano.
Ex fire chief of Coronado Wayne Strickland led the memorial and invited people to come up and share their story. Staff photo by Kylie Capuano.
Hugs were exchanged among attendees, many of which lost a loved one by suicide off of the bridge. Staff photo by Kylie Capuano.

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Kylie Capuano is a reporter for the Coronado News. She graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University in 2024 with a Bachelors in multimedia journalism. She was the Features Editor for PLNU's student newspaper The Point. She loves to write anything from fashion, to human-interest, to current events. In her free time, she can be found wandering the local beaches with her film camera in hand.