An elderly woman jumped to her death from a Manhattan skyscraper in front of horrified wedding guests, and was decapitated when her body hit the side of the building on the way down.
The unidentified 80-year-old woman jumped to her death from the 28th floor of the luxurious Park Regis Apartments on New York’s Upper East Side on Saturday around 3:30 p.m.
A wedding was taking place at a church in Carnegie Hill at the time, according to a local media outlet. Upper East Site.
Horrified witnesses recalled the moment she was decapitated after becoming trapped in the railings and balconies on the side of the building.
“I stopped just as she was lying there, she had no head,” a resident of the building told the New York Post on Saturday. “The head and arm were cut off cleanly on the other side and ended up on the terrace.”
The unidentified 80-year-old woman jumped to her death from the 28th floor of the luxurious Park Regis Apartments (pictured) on New York’s Upper East Side on Saturday around 3:30 p.m.
They added that a fence at the back of the apartment was bent by the impact and the woman’s clothes were stuck to it.
Police have not yet revealed the woman’s identity or the suspected motive for the suicide.
It comes after film industry mogul J. Michael Cline jumped to his death from the 20th floor of a luxury hotel in Midtown Manhattan earlier this year.
The 64-year-old co-founder of movie ticketing company Fandango jumped from the Kimberly Hotel and landed on a third-floor patio in July.
His business had struggled during the pandemic, which caused movie theaters to close or be forced to follow restrictions on audience sizes allowed for nearly two years.
Cline, who was a “serial entrepreneur” and managing partner of startup funding company Accretive, is said to have left a note before taking his own life.
J. Michael Cline, 64-year-old co-founder of the movie ticketing company Fandango, jumped from the Kimberly Hotel and landed on a third-floor patio.
Cline jumped from the 20th floor of the hotel and landed on a patio on the third floor.
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