Man who jumped from dorm window in stable condition

A South Bend man visiting IU attempted to commit suicide by jumping out the third floor hallway window of Ashton Vos on Wednesday night, IU Police Department officers said. But his friends claim he was only joking and didn't mean to go through the window.\nThe 19-year-old man, who is not an IU student, was in stable condition at Bloomington Hospital on Thursday afternoon, IUPD Capt. Jerry Minger said.\nThe man told residents of the third floor of Vos that he was going to dive out the window, but no one took him seriously, Minger said, reading from a police report. The floor residents returned to what they were doing and then heard someone running down the hall, glass breaking and a scream, Minger said. They found the man lying on the concrete outside, the report said. \nIUPD officers arrived at about 8:20 p.m. to find the man lying on the west side of Ashton Vos with fragments of glass around him and the window screen beneath him, Minger said. The third floor window was broken but some glass in the frame remained intact.\nThe male was conscious and his breathing was shallow when police arrived. He also suffered a swollen left eye and laceration on his upper lip, Minger said.\nParamedics rushed the man to the hospital in critical condition, he said.\nAs of Thursday morning the man had undergone one surgery, Minger said.\n"We can only assume he meant to do some sort of harm to himself," Minger said. "(The floor residents) evidently didn't take him very seriously because they went back to what they were doing."\nFreshman Sasha Sindlinger said she and the man were like family and that the incident was not a suicide attempt.\n"I know for sure from the bottom of my heart," Sindlinger said. "If you knew (him), you'd know he was just goofy. That's (his) personality. He's hyper, he just likes to play around. ... I know that his soul just meant to stop, but for some reason his body kept going."\nSindlinger said the man is going to need a couple more surgeries because some of his facial bones were shattered and his teeth were damaged.\nThird floor resident Tasha Hart also said she believes it was not a suicide attempt, that the man was "just kidding around." He was running on the floor and couldn't stop, sending him through the window, she said.\nHart said the man often stayed with Sindlinger, who lives on the floor.\n"He's made a lot of friends on the floor, so we stayed up until 4 a.m. crying and praying," Hart said.\nThird floor resident and sophomore Sarah Bryan said she was in her room near the window when the man jumped and she heard glass break. She left her room and looked out the broken window to see the man on the ground. \n"At first I was like, 'Oh my God, he's dead,' but then I saw him moving his arms," Bryan said. "It was very chaotic. Nobody really knew what happened."\nFreshman Whitney R. Barnett, another resident of the floor, agreed with Hart that the man did not attempt to kill himself. \n"We all think the same thing," Barnett said. "We all think it was an accident." \nBecause the man told others on the floor he was going to jump out the window and then did so, Minger said they have no reason to believe it was not a suicide attempt. \n"Nothing at this point has caused us to sway from our original determination, and it's based on what he warned everyone he was going to do and for all indications he actually carried out," he said.