‘Depressed’ cartoonist, Jon Medwick, jumps to his death from his 15th-floor Chelsea apartment as his girlfriend tried to grab him and save his life
- Jon Medwick, 62, jumped from his window in Chelsea, New York City
- Live-in girlfriend, 45, woke up to see him standing by the window and tried to grab him
- According to police, he was depressed at the time. Last New Yorker to jump to his death
A ‘depressed’ cartoonist jumped out of his apartment window to his death when his girlfriend tried to pull him back inside.
Jon Medwick, 62, died when he hit the ground outside 300 West 23rd Street in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood around 5:45 a.m. Tuesday.
The cartoonist, who took assignments from private clients and worked as a freelance copywriter, was “depressed” at the time, the police said.
His 45-year-old girlfriend woke up to see him standing at the window of their 15th floor apartment and rushed over to grab him before he jumped. But Medwick “slipped away” from her grasp, a police source told the newspaper New York Post.
Jon Medwick, 62, jumped from his apartment window to his death Tuesday morning
She couldn’t catch him before he fell off the edge at the back of the building and died.
‘His apartment is at the back of the building. According to what they said, he jumped out of his apartment window,” a resident told the Post.
Police said they did not believe the fall was suspicious.
Medwick regularly posted photos of the Manhattan skyline on his social media pages.
He bought his apartment in Chelsea for $1.45 million in 2012 and served on the building’s co-op board.
Medwick regularly posted photos of the Manhattan skyline on his social media pages
He was on the building’s cooperative board and was well liked by his neighbors
His girlfriend had been living in the apartment since 2021 after they started dating shortly before the coronavirus pandemic.
She was so distraught after seeing him jump out of the window that she had to be taken to hospital, witnesses said.
Medwick’s brother, a frequent visitor to the home, was also seen speaking to detectives outside on Tuesday.
He is the latest known New Yorker to jump to his death from the windows of high-rise apartments in recent months.
In February, a man fell to his death from a high-rise in the Financial District. The incident took place at 19 Dutch Street at Fulton Street in Manhattan’s financial district, a luxury building where rents can reach $10,000 a month.
A 56-year-old jumped to his death from the fourth floor of a swanky townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in December.
The unnamed man was found just before 7:30 a.m. on December 21 in front of 18 East 67th Street, near Madison Avenue.
The antebellum building rents units for up to $9,000 per month. First responders rushed the man to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.