An aged man plunged to his dying throughout a house invasion in Washington Heights early Saturday morning after a neighbor noticed the sufferer climb out a window and fall onto scaffolding, in accordance with cops and a report.
A trio of burglars descended on an condominium within the residential constructing close to 161st Avenue and Broadway round 4:30 a.m. after one of many thieves scaled a fireplace escape, broke by a window and let the opposite two perps inside by the entrance door, police mentioned.
The burglars tied up a 40-year-old man and stole a gold chain price round $8,000 and about $200 in money, in accordance with authorities.
Because the unnerving theft unraveled, the restrained man’s father, Jacinto Remigo, 73, fell from the unit’s window onto development scaffolding, police mentioned.
He was rushed to Harlem Hospital, however couldn’t be saved.
The NYPD mentioned it’s nonetheless probing how the person fell, however a neighbor, Heriberto Garcia, instructed NBC 4 that Remigo climbed out of the window and tried to make use of a small ledge to achieve one other window main as much as the deadly fall.
“There was a loud bang early in the morning,” one other resident, Richard Ramsundarsingh recalled CBS 2.
“I heard the sound. You think it’s the neighborhood.”
Footage from the heart-wrenching scene confirmed Remigo on a stretcher as first responders labored to get him onto the sidewalk and into an ambulance.
“It’s just terrible,” neighbor Henrique Sobrinho instructed ABC 7.
“And my condolences to him and his entire family – it’s awful.”
The three housebreaking suspects, all males, are being sought by the NYPD after they fled.
