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Police say a man took a fatal plunge from a high-rise apartment building in Murray Hill, landing in the middle of Lexington Avenue on Monday morning.
Responding to 911 calls just after 8 a.m. on Nov. 29, police and EMS discovered an unnamed man laying unresponsive at the corner of East 33rd Street and Lexington Avenue just outside of Windsor Court Apartments. According to police sources, the man appeared to have jumped from the 31-story high-rise, taking his own life.
The macabre scene left many locals shocked and unnerved. Azharul, was working at Anita’s Delicatessen when he heard the awful sound of the jumper hitting the road.
“It sounded like a gunshot,” Azharul said, slamming his hand down on the deli’s counter to indicate the noise. “It was very distressing. It happened right in front of one of our customers, she saw the entire thing. She was devastated, she was shaking,” Azharul explained.
Officers swiftly wrapped the area with crime scene tape and concealed the body with a sheet while they investigated. Onlookers could be seen popping their heads out of apartment windows, cupping their mouths in dismay while a sizable crowd gathered on street level muttering among themselves.
People have a right to take their own lives if they so wish (however tragic), but they have absolutely no right to traumatize unsuspecting bystanders in so public of a space in so violent a way.
I'll never forget hearing the sound of a body getting rammed by an oncoming subway car one morning while waiting at my station to go to work. I didn't see it happen, but clearly heard it, and just that sound is as clear now, 4 1/2 years later, as if was the minute it happened.
People have a right to take their own lives if they so wish (however tragic), but they have absolutely no right to traumatize unsuspecting bystanders in so public of a space in so violent a way.
I'll never forget hearing the sound of a body getting rammed by an oncoming subway car one morning while waiting at my station to go to work. I didn't see it happen, but clearly heard it, and just that sound is as clear now, 4 1/2 years later, as if was the minute it happened.
I suppose its a final FU to the world before they move on to the next planet. But yes I agree.
He could have landed on someone else. That happened in few weeks ago in Westchester I believe.
I think you have to have a certain personality. All people get depressed, sometimes extremely so and unbelievably sad and despondent. But not everybody who gets there thinks the way out is to end it all. I've had my share of depressions throughout the years but have never ever considered ending it as a way out. Like not even once ever remotely. I think I would have to be under some sort of actually excruciating pain for a very long time, and even then I'd like to think I could tough it out. If it was a permanent, terminal condition then *shrug* I don't know, anything is possible
You never know other people's mental state and condition. Chronic depression/suicidal thoughts is also a thing, sometimes medically induced.
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