Man throws child, himself off 52-storey Manhattan building roof <http://www.thecanadianpress.com/> Description: The Canadian PressBy Verena Dobnik, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press
NEW YORK, N.Y. - A man involved in a custody dispute who was supposed to
turn his three-year-old son over to the boy's mother Sunday instead threw
the child off the roof of a 52-storey Manhattan apartment building before
jumping to his death, police said.
Officers responding to an emergency call reporting two jumpers from the
building on the Upper West Side around noon Sunday found Dmitriy Kanarikov,
35, of Brooklyn, and the boy on the lower rooftops of two separate nearby
buildings.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene and his son, Kirill Kanarikov, was
pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, police said.
The boy's mother had custody of the child and the father, who had visiting
rights, was supposed to hand the boy over to the mother at a police precinct
Sunday afternoon, authorities said.
Luis Ortiz told the New York Post that he was at the hospital when
paramedics rushed the boy there and that they were pumping his chest and
working on him.
"You could tell he was slipping away. They said the father was up there, but
they didn't bring anyone else in. It was just heartbreaking. I have two kids
of my own. They tried to do the best they could," Ortiz told the newspaper.
Authorities said the father did not live in the building listed as South
Park Tower, which is a short distance away from Columbus Circle and Lincoln
Center.
Police investigating the deaths left the building in the mid-afternoon to
photograph a grey Lexus RX350 parked nearby.
It's the second time this year that a parent and child have been involved in
a fatal plunge from a New York apartment building.
In March, a woman clutching her baby son in her arms plunged eight stories
out of a Harlem apartment window to her death, but the 10-month-old
survived. Authorities found a suicide note in her home.
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