Possible Suicide By 17-Year-Old At Manhattan School

 

A 17-year-old student at Dalton School, one of Manhattan’s most elite private schools, may have jumped to his death Wednesday morning.

Detectives believe the teenager, who has not been identified but investigators said he was a student at the exclusive school, snuck into an empty dance studio on the school’s 11th floor, opened the top part of the window and jumped.

His body landed on the pavement in front of The Dalton School on E. 89th St. and narrowly missed landing on several children who were playing on the sidewalk when the teen fell at 11:15 a.m., witnesses said.

Dalton security guard Michael Brown, who was on the street when the body fell, said:

“I heard a loud bang.” It sounded like a gunshot…he was just dead.”

“The fourth graders were out here [and] everybody started running away from the body,” Brown said.

“The teachers got them out of here pretty quickly. They were right there.”