‘Depressed’ Cartoonist Jumps to His Death from 15th Floor of NYC Building – News18

New York City-based Cartoonist Jon Medwick jumped to his death out of his apartment window this week. His girlfriend tried to pull him back inside but failed to do so. He jumped out of his building at 300 West 23rd Street in the Chelsea neighbourhood of New York City around 5:45am on Tuesday.

Medwick took commissions from private clients and worked as a freelance copywriter. Police said that Medwick was ‘depressed’ at the time of his death.

Medwick’s girlfriend said she woke up to see him standing at the window of their 15th-floor apartment. She rushed over to grab him before he jumped but the cartoonist jumped, slipping away from her grip.

She could not get a hold of him as he plunged from the ledge at the backside of the building and fell to his death.

‘His apartment is at the back of the building. From what they were saying he jumped from his apartment window,’ one resident was quoted as saying by the New York Post. Police said they do not believe the fall is not suspicious.

The cartoonist often posted photos of the Manhattan skyline on his social media pages. The apartment he jumped from he bought for $1.45 million in 2012 and served on the building’s co-op board.

His girlfriend was living with him since 2021 after they started dating shortly before the coronavirus pandemic. She had to be hospitalised as she was distraught after watching him jump from the window.

This is the latest incident where a New Yorker jumped to their death. A man fell to his death from a high-rise in the Financial District last month. Another 56-year-old jumped to his death from the fourth floor of a building in Manhattan in December.