- Jon Medwick, 62, jumped from his window in Chelsea, New York
- His 45-year-old girlfriend woke up and saw him in the window and tried to grab him.
- Police said he was depressed at the time. The last New Yorker to jump to his death
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A “depressed” cartoonist jumped to his death from his apartment window as his girlfriend tried to push him back inside.
Jon Medwick, 62, died when he fell to the ground outside 300 West 23rd Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City around 5:45 a.m. Tuesday.
The cartoonist, who took commissions from private clients and worked as a freelance copywriter, was “depressed” at the time, police said.
His 45-year-old girlfriend woke up and saw him standing in the window of her 15th-floor apartment and ran to grab him before he jumped. But Medwick “escaped” from his control, a police source told the New York Post.
Jon Medwick, 62, jumped to his death from his apartment window Tuesday morning.
She was unable to catch him before he fell from the ledge at the back of the building and died.
His apartment is at the back of the building. From what they were saying, she jumped out of her apartment window,” one resident told the Post.
Police said they did not believe the fall was suspicious.
Medwick frequently posted photos of the Manhattan skyline on his social media pages.
He bought his apartment in Chelsea for $1.45 million in 2012 and served on the building’s cooperative board.
Medwick frequently posted photos of the Manhattan skyline on his social media pages.
He was on the building’s cooperative board and was well liked by his neighbors.
His girlfriend had lived in the apartment since 2021 after they started dating shortly before the coronavirus pandemic.
She was so distraught after seeing him jump out the window that she had to be taken to hospital, witnesses said.
Medwick’s brother, a frequent visitor to the home, was also seen talking to detectives outside Tuesday.
He is the last known New Yorker to jump to his death from high-rise apartment windows in recent months.
In February, a man died after falling from a skyscraper in the financial district. The incident occurred at 19 Dutch Street and Fulton Street in Manhattan’s financial district, a luxury building where rents can reach up to $10,000 a month.
A 56-year-old man jumped to his death from the fourth floor of an elegant Upper East Side home in Manhattan in December.
The unnamed man was found in front of 18 East 67th Street, near Madison Avenue, shortly before 7:30 a.m. on December 21.
The prewar building rents units for up to $9,000 a month. First responders took the man to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.