Woman Falls To Death From East Harlem Public Housing Building, Police Say

EAST HARLEM, NY — The NYPD is investigating the death of a woman who fell to her death from the roof of an East Harlem public housing building.

Yanina Boitel, 33, was found outside a building in the Thomas Jefferson Houses development on Third Avenue between East 113th and 114th streets around 9:30 Saturday night, police said. When officers arrived on the scene, Boitel was unconscious, unresponsive and suffering from trauma to the body, police said.

Boitel was rushed to Metropolitan Hospital where she died, police told Patch.

The NYPD is currently looking at the death as a suicide, NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce told reporters Monday. Boitel's family believes her boyfriend is at fault, but a witness has confirmed the boyfriend's story that he was not involved in her death, Boyce told reporters.

"The case is not over by a long shot. But that where the case is right now, and we’ll go forward. And this boyfriend has no prior arrests," Boyce told reporters Monday.

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The city medical examiner will investigated Boitel's official cause of death, police said.

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