By The newspaper
Aug 24, 2023, 15:03 PM EDT
Several days after a body was found destroyed after falling from the roof of the luxurious “Mandarin Oriental” hotel in front of Central Park in New York, it was identified as Noah Legaspi, a 17-year-old teenager who had been reported missing by his family in New Jersey. .
NYPD believes that the young man jumped shortly after 9 pm on Thursday the 17th after taking a service elevator to the roof, dressed in pajamas. That same day he had been reported missing, police and family sources said yesterday.
The jumper from a Manhattan Deutsche Bank Center rooftop is identified as a missing New Jersey teen.
Noah Legaspi plunged through the Mandarin Oriental Hotel’s marquee, splitting his body in two before hitting the sidewalk on Aug. 17. https://t.co/OY5em4vHsn
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The hotel, one of the most expensive in New York, is located on the top 19 floors of the 55-story Deutsche Bank Center tower (until 2021 called the Time Warner Center), which also houses residences.
Legaspi was not registered as a guest or resident and was not carrying any identification. Investigators believe he entered through a cargo area and took a service elevator to the 21st floor of the hotel tower on Thursday, a police source said.
The family stopped hearing from the teen after his father dropped him off at his girlfriend’s home in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, on Thursday. They spent the next few days looking for him.
It wasn’t until Monday night that New York police officers knocked on the family’s door in Avenel, NJ, and their relatives were able to identify the young man seen on camera entering the Deutsche Bank Center before his tragic death, he said. Daily News.
“(He had) many demons and insecurities, and that took over and won, unfortunately,” his brother Luis Legaspi, 28, said yesterday. “It’s a mental health thing,” he mused. “Even though he had all that pain inside of him, he always managed to make someone smile.”
The family believes the teen and his girlfriend broke up before he called a cab service and ended up in Manhattan. He was a senior at Colonia High School in Colonia (NJ) and wanted to become a fashion designer. He worked as a tailor’s apprentice during the summer, added his father Elias Legaspi.
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