Suicide due to financial problems: in New York, spouses jumped out of the window of the 9 floor
'28.07.2017'
Source: The New York Post
A couple from Manhattan, New York, crashed to death by jumping from the floor of the 9 window.
According to law enforcement, the husband and wife committed suicide because of financial problems, reports The New York Post.
Early on Friday morning, July 28, the couple decided to commit suicide, leaving two suicide notes.
The bodies of a man, a 53-year-old chiropractor, and his 50-year-old wife were found on 33-th Street in Murray Hill. According to police, the couple sprang out of the window 9 floor 17-storey office building. It was also the office of the deceased. In a note found in his pocket, a man wrote: "I had a wonderful life." The note found in the woman read: "Our children are upstairs, please take care of them."
“Patricia and I had everything in life,” the man's note says. However, the couple was raised by the issue of the "financial spiral". “We cannot survive in financial reality,” the deceased admitted in a note.
A law enforcement source at the scene said The PostThe authorities first thought the couple was struggling with the costs of health care. But later a representative NYPD He said that the notes did not mention medical and economic difficulties. According to another source, the couple was in debt.
Workers in the area who witnessed the consequences of the tragic incident were shocked.
“When I arrived here at 6:05 am, I was walking past dead bodies on the ground,” said a woman who introduced herself as Kazi. She works at the nearest store 7-Eleven. - I was scared. I've never seen a dead body before, ”she added.
Another man who works in a nearby building said that after hearing the police sirens, he looked out the window and saw two bodies. “Crazy,” he said.
It is noted that the tragic death of a married couple occurred during a national debate on health care reform.
