NEW YORK (WABC) -- A 35-year-old Brooklyn man and a four-year-old boy, believed to be his son, plunged to their deaths off an Upper West Side apartment building in what could be the end of a custody dispute.
The man is an immigrant from the Ukraine. He is estranged from his wife and is in an apparent custody dispute. In fact, he was supposed to hand off the boy to her at a police precinct but never showed up.
The man has no known connection to the building, and detectives are struggling to make sense of the "very random" incident. They are looking into whether he knows someone who lives there.
The man has a steady job and no prior arrests. He did not leave a note explaining his actions.
Detectives believe he drove to the building, possibly with the child, and parked in the area of West 60th Street.
He walked into the building, apparently unchallenged. It is not known why he selected the building.
Detectives believed he and his son went off the roof, but it is still unclear if he dropped the boy first or jumped while holding him
One witness on a high floor saw a body fall past the window, leading detectives to believe they went off the roof.
Police are looking at surveillance video and looking into other residents and their activities.
The boy was wearing Christmas socks, described as green and white with red mistletoe.
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