35-year-old Brooklyn resident Dmitriy Kanarikov, who reportedly was separated from his wife sharing custody of their 3-year-old son, threw the boy from the roof of a 52-story Manhattan high-rise apartment on Sunday afternoon before jumping to his own death, the New York Police Department said, as reported by The New York Times.
The bodies were found on separate rooftops below the tower, according to news reports.
Kanarikov was killed immediately while the boy later died at the nearby St. Luke's Hospital after attempts to save his life failed.
Kanarikov was "supposed to drop off his 3-year-old at the 17th Precinct police station on the East Side after a three hour visit, as per their custody arrangement," The New York Post reported. "Instead surveillance footage from the scene at 124 W. 60th Street shows the dad leading the child by the hand into the high-rise building at around 11:45 a.m., according to law enforcement."
The Ukranian native then went to the top of South Park Tower and flung the boy to his death before he leaped off at around 12:05, The New York Post reported.
The 3-year-old Kirill was found on a sixth-floor landing.
"They were pumping his chest and working on him, and nothing. It was just heartbreaking... They tried to do the best they could," said Luis Ortiz who was at the hospital working on Kirill.
Meanwhile, Kanarikov fell onto the fourth-floor landing of a John Jay College building next door, and died immediately.
Svetlana Bukharina, the child's mother told police that her husband had previously "threatened to kill himself and then kill our child," according to a source, as reported by The New York Post.
"Kanarikov, an immigrant from Ukraine, had a male pal who, until two months ago, lived in the Upper West Side building where the tragedy occurred and used to visit him there, sources said," The New York Post reported.
"I want to be the best dad and husband. Nothing is more important to me right now," wrote Kanarikov in a September Facebook posting.
