Man jumps to his death from downtown Manhattan luxury apartment building, is decapitated: witnesses
A man leaping from a luxury lower Manhattan apartment building met a grisly end Thursday when he was decapitated after crashing into a railing, horrified witnesses said.
The unidentified man jumped from a West St. building at about 11 a.m., officials said. His body exploded apart after it hit the railing bordering Battery Place and the underpa$s that leads to FDR Drive — leaving stunned onlookers covered in blood.
“There were body parts all over the floor,” said Hans Peler, 48, manager of the GGMC parking garage, which stands just a few feet from the gory scene. "Blood was all over (my employee’s) shirt. I sent him straight home. He was very upset," said Peler. "It's terrible, man."
Body parts may have also hit or bounced off a Honda CRV that stopped short on the roadway and remained at the scene, witnesses said.
“I don’t know where he came from! I don’t know where he came from!” a passenger of the SUV was heard screaming.
Witness Mario Mroczkowski, 37, said the impact was so bad, the man's body was left in pieces.
"I got close, but when I looked, all I saw were body parts ... guts everywhere," Mroczkowski said. "He hit the railing and got his head cut off."
Taxi driver Tony Santos, 45, was in his SUV in front of the Ritz-Carlton across the street when he was startled by the sound of the body's impact.
"I heard like a boom," Santos said.
Hours after the apparent su1cide, the man remained unidentified.
Body parts were found under the CRV, witnesses said. Blood was found pooled under the car and spattered on both sides of the railing, witnesses said.
"He’s a mess," a police source said. "His face is barely decipherable."
Witnesses believe the man jumped from the 18th floor of 1 West St., home of Ocean Luxury Residences where one-bedroom apartments go for up to $4,000 a month. At least one witness said he jumped from the roof of the 31-story building.
Styled after a 14th-century palace, 1 West St. has a Venetian-look lobby, fitness center and outdoor decks overlooking New York Harbor.
Cops were investigating the man's death Thursday afternoon.
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