Mother Falls To Death From Harlem Public Housing Building: Police

HARLEM, NY — A mother of three fell to her death from the fifth floor of a Harlem public housing building after the NYPD was called to the apartment, police said.

Quanneisha Baskerville, 30, was pronounced dead Saturday after falling five stories from a building on the corner of West 115th Street and Lenox Avenue, police said. The building is part of the New York Housing City Housing Authority's Dr. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Towers, police said.

The NYPD was called to the fifth-floor apartment building around noon Saturday to investigate a violation of an order of protection, police said. After officers arrived at the apartment, they saw Baskerville fall from a window in the apartment, police said.

Baskerville, who lives in an adjacent building in the King Towers development, was dropping off her three children at her ex-boyfriends apartment, the New York Times reported. An order of protection had been filed against Baskerville for kicking in her ex-boyfriend's door on Jan. 26 and punching him in the lip the next day, the Times reported.

A 15-year-old who lives on the same floor as Baskerville told the Times that he saw police pleading with the woman as she hung from the fifth-floor window.

"The cops came and told her to get off the window sill," the boy, who's mother wished he remain anonymous, told the Times. "By the time the big police van came she jumped. She landed on her back."

Baskerville's death is being investigated by the NYPD's 28th Precinct, the Times reported.

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