Gold Coast balcony jump: Heartstopping moment man leaps off a five-storey building into a pool to evade cops

A man has been caught on camera taking a death-defying leap from a five-storey balcony into a pool to avoid police capture.

Police attended the Canopy Apartment complex on Simpsons Road on the Gold Coast to conduct a welfare check on a man following calls from concerned neighbors on Sunday.

The man, who is in his 30s, climbed over the balcony railing of his apartment in an attempt to evade police.

Residents and neighbors captured the heartbreaking moment the man jumped from the balcony into the apartment complex’s pool.

The footage shows the police trying to convince the man to crawl back over the rail to safety.

‘He can’t climb back up,’ a woman is heard saying before the man lets go of the rail.

‘Holy, he jumped’.

It is understood police called in specialist negotiators to help convince the man not to jump.

Amazingly, the man managed to escape and plunged into the pool with only minor injuries.

Witnesses claim the man crawled out of the pool, burst out of the complex and ran through a neighbor’s backyard before fleeing on foot down the street.

The officers found the man at his parents’ home late Sunday afternoon.

Police are still investigating the incident and the man has not yet been charged.