80 year old woman decapitated jumping to her death from NYC 28th floor of her luxury high rise residence at the Park Regis on the Upper East side.
An elderly woman jumped to her death from her 28th story NYC residence only to be decapitated and losing her left arm as she hit the side of her high rise building on the way down.
The unidentified 80-year-old leaped to her death from the luxury Park Regis Apartments at 50 East 89th St in New York’s Upper East Side on Saturday around 3.30pm.
The incident was witnessed by wedding guests who had gathered at a Carnegie Hill church for a wedding, leaving many in shock.
Elderly woman decapitated as she plunged to her death in NYC: ‘she had no head’ https://t.co/5IQCgsSimM pic.twitter.com/8bXsDtbaJl
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Mental health
Horrified witnesses recalled the moment the woman was decapitated after becoming caught on railings and balconies on the side of the building.
‘I pulled up just as she was laying there, she had no head,’ a building resident told the nypost. ‘The head and the arm were clean cut off on the other side, they ended up on the terrace.’
They added that a fence at the bottom of the apartment was left bent from the impact, and the woman’s clothes were stuck to it.
According to Zillow, one bedroom apartments are currently on offer at over $1m.
Police have not yet released the woman’s identity or what led to the 80 year old woman to take her own life.
The suicide is the latest incident involving individuals leaping to their deaths from high rises (often luxury buildings) in Manhattan, NYC.
While authorities haven’t attributed one particular cause for the stark manner of taking one’s life, mental health is often cited as the principal reason along with the distress, depression and alienation that comes with living in a city like NYC.
