UPDATE2: Man falls off overpass after apparent Taser use

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COLUMBIA - A man fell off the overpass at Providence and Interstate 70 at 12:03 p.m. Friday after being shot with a Taser by Columbia Police, a police department news release said.

In a video posted to KMIZ's Web site, a police officer discharged his Taser while the man was speaking to police on the walkway. This shot missed. The man ran a short distance before police shot him with a second Taser discharge. He collapsed to the ledge of the overpass and then rolled off, falling to an embankment.

Emergency crews placed him in neck and back braces before putting him in a University Hospital ambulance, Columbia Police officer Mark Brotemarkle said. The man was conscious and breathing.

Before 11 a.m., crowds gathered near the intersection, parking their cars at nearby gas stations to watch the man on the overpass bridge. He was hanging onto the outside of protective fencing on the pedestrian walkway, inching back and forth over the interstate. Police verbally negotiated with the man for an hour and a half while he was on the bridge, the news release said.

During the incident, some spectators began yelling at the man; some people in the MG Auto Repair parking lot urged him to jump.

About 30 minutes before the man fell or jumped off the bridge, a woman showed up at the scene and told police that she was the man's daughter.

"Let me get through," she told an officer. "That is my father; I am the daughter." Police did not let the woman through, instead a police negotiator led her to the median and began questioning her.

When the man fell, people began yelling "He jumped! He jumped!" The woman who said she was the man's daughter fell to her knees on the median and began screaming.

All lanes of I-70 and Providence Road are now open.

Police had earlier closed I-70 after the initial report of the man's threats to jump off the bridge, an operator at Joint Communications said.

The man's condition and name are unknown at this time.

The Missourian is continuing to gather information about the incident.