Empire State Building jumper identified as Yale student

Last Updated: 2:34 PM, March 31, 2010

Posted: 11:46 AM, March 31, 2010


The man who jumped from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building's observation deck was identified as Yale University student Cameron Dabaghi, school officials said today.

Dabaghi, a junior from Austin, Texas, plunged from the deck in an apparent suicide on Tuesday shortly before 6:30 p.m.

"We are all deeply distressed by this news," wrote Yale College Dean Mary Miller in a message to students issued this morning.

Dabaghi, who was expected to graduate in 2011 was majoring in East Asian studies, according to the student newspaper the Yale Daily News.

Before Tuesday's incident, the most recent suicide at the landdmark building is believed to have been four years ago when a man jumped from a vacant office on the 66th floor.



















Source: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/empire_state_building_jumper_was_s9vPP9Ae9exNxlwRw4NHJM .