Woman, 60, Jumps To Her Death From 46-storey Building In New York With Her Rescue Dog In Her Arms

A 60-year-old woman and her dog died on Friday after she jumped from the roof of her luxury Midtown building in New York city while holding her tiny lap dog, according to Police.

The Manhattan woman identified as Linda Holston, had just finished eating her last meal on top of her 46-storey apartment building when she jumped to her death with her 'lap dog' just before 1 p.m., the New York Post reported.

Holston who lived in a 46-storey building called The Victory at 561 10th Avenue left behind a handwritten note lamenting the stress she was facing — then just walked to the edge and jumped, sources said. Bottles of medication were found in her apartment, sources said.

Just before the woman jumped, a paper airplane note landed near a local resident who was sitting on the roof of a building across the street, he told the outlet.

Dimitri Wallace said that he saw the words “You are blessed!” scrawled on one of the paper airplane's wings. On the other, someone had written: “Stay strong. You'll get through this!”

“It landed on my roof up here, like directly above. I was like ‘Oh s–t, is somebody OK?’” Wallace said.

“Yo, that’s crazy that somebody like threw this note and then this literally happened like right after,” he said of the suicide. “I just saw it, and I was like ‘Oh, that’s weird.”

“I threw it off the roof," he said of the paper airplane. "I wanted to just send it to whoever … just passing along a positive message.”

It was not immediately clear if the paper airplane had been written by the woman or by someone else who had thrown it from another building in an attempt to reach her before she jumped.

Witnesses said that they were shocked the woman had jumped with her pooch.

Construction worker Mike Olive, 37, said: “Bro, she threw herself out with a dog! With a dog!”

“It's unfortunate that somebody finds themselves in that situation. It's unfortunate. Hopefully, God has her in his hands,” he said.

Hesham Almakaleh, 20, was working as a security guard at a charter school across the street and said he was glad school wasn't in session so kids didn't have to see the woman jump.

“How could you just grab your dog?” Almakaleh added.

46-story apartment complex — The Victory at 561 10th Ave. near 41st Street in Hell’s Kitchen

This is not the first fatal jumping incident in the building. Last February, the NYPD responded to another suicide at the same building. The victim in that incident did not land on the street or sidewalk next to the building.

The person was found on an above-ground landing and carried out a service entrance door to the building. Cops had to use ropes and a ladder to access the body in a confined space and hoist it up to a level where they could then remove it, according to reports.

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