An 18-year-old woman died after jumping from the 5th-floor window of an NYU art building on Saturday night, according to police.
Police responded to a 911 call of a jumper down around 7:30 p.m. at NYU’s Barney Building on Stuyvesant Street, which houses the art department’s studios, classrooms and offices.
The young woman was found outside of the building unconscious and unresponsive with severe trauma to her body, cops said.
She was rushed to Bellevue hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Investigators later determined she had leapt to her death from a 5th-floor window of the six-story building.
It’s not clear if she was an NYU student.
The 18-year-old jumped from the window of NYU’s Barney Building around 7:30 p.m. Peter Gerber
The woman was rushed to Bellevue Hospital where she died of her injuries. Peter Gerber“I just heard a thump and girl scream,” said Justina Sung, 30, who was in her nearby apartment at the time.
“My roommate asked someone and someone said [they] jumped off and landed in that triangle area,” she said, referring to a small, fenced in green space outside of the building at the confluence of 9th and Stuyvesant Streets.
Police at the scene were investigating a blood-splattered area just outside of the fencing.
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