New York Post – by Aaron Feis, Beckie Strum and Jennifer Bain
An investment banker jumped to his death from the window of his million-dollar apartment in the Financial District on Thursday, sources and authorities said.
The 29-year-old man plunged from the 24th floor of the luxury Ocean apartment building at 1 West St. at about 10:40 a.m. and landed on a guardrail near the northbound Battery Park Underpass, narrowly missing a black SUV.
The man’s body was mangled by the impact, leaving one of the vehicle’s passengers horrified, witnesses said.
“I went outside, and the woman in the car was screaming, ‘I didn’t know where he came from!’ ” said Hans Peler, 48, a manager at the building’s parking garage.
“It happened right in front of our guy who waves cars in with the flag. He was so shaken up, I told him to go home.”
The gruesome aftermath sent tourists on an open-air bus that was stuck in traffic scrambling for their cellphones to snap pictures of the body, said workers at the building.
“The head hit the railing . . . Half his head is on one side of the railing, half on the other,” recalled Frank Rodriguez, 44, a handyman who was working nearby. “It’s never worth this . . . Life is too precious.”
Sources said the young banker had made several attempts to kill himself earlier in the morning, including cutting his wrists, before making the plunge.
The man — whom police did not immediately identify — was from a wealthy family in Westchester County, sources said.
He had apparently become very successful on his own.
He owned his apartment in the 36-story Ocean complex, which overlooks The Battery and New York Harbor, and had just returned from a vacation in the Bahamas, sources said.
http://nypost.com/2015/05/28/man-falls-to-death-outside-luxury-building/
Another one bites the asphalt. I’m sure there’s another soulless, bloodsucking sociopath who loves living off of other people’s labor waiting to step in and take his place. It’s to bad their isn’t a way to inflict a conscience on these….things. Like a conscience ray or something.
Several attempts earlier and no positive results? Obviously not all that successful on his own!
Perhaps cutting his wrists, as per “sources”, is to explain away ligature marks?
Not that he’s not a total scumbag, but he is just one of many pieces garbage in the dump filled with “bankers”. He could’ve crossed the wrong shylock.14
I’m with you on all that, Martist… except for ’14’. 🙂
Haha 14 was security answer and I tried to edit but darn phone was not cooperating! 🙂
Tooth first impact, leaving onlookers horrified!!
I lost count. Isn’t the number of banker “suicides” now in the seventies?
There have been so many of them, that there may have been an effort made to make this “suicide” look more convincing…. like cutting his wrists a few hours before throwing him overboard.
On the other hand, rich people can’t handle a minute of poverty, so it may in fact be a genuine suicide, and if it is, it happened because the crash is very near.
Maybe it’s a mysterious virus increasing suicidal ideation. Something like that mysterious virus that caused all those bioweapons experts to leap from tall buildings and bridges during the anthrax scare after 911.
“Watch out for falling bankers” signs should be installed on Wall Street! 😆
“The head hit the railing . . . Half his head is on one side of the railing, half on the other,”
OUTSTANDING!!!
I give this guy a 10.
Free headcheese for everybody!
It wasn’t clear from the article if there was actually a brain in that head.
It was three feet away on the footpath
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Good one, uL!
I’m disappointed it wasn’t captured on video. A once in a life time opportunity to see a pig get what he deserves in such spectacular fashion. Talk about splittin’ that coconut in half!
That was no pig, that was a vulture.
Hey, Millard, check out what hweinhard said about AJ. I gotta go find that Stratfor e-mail.
http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/how-to-be-a-real-man-like-alex-jones-super-male-vitality/134000#comment-887290
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And…..another one bites the dust.