Woman, 22, plunges five stories from the rooftop of her Manhattan building 'after taking pictures with friends'
- Reilly Hamilton, 22, plunged five stories from the roof of her Manhattan building
- She is in a stable condition and suffered a fractured pelvis, broken ankle and arm
- Neighbors said she was taking pictures with friends when the incident happened
- It comes one month after Fordham student Sydney Monfries, 22, fell 40ft inside her campus clock tower while taking Instagram pictures
A woman suffered severe injuries after falling from the roof of her Manhattan building 'while taking pictures with friends.'
Reilly Hamilton, 22, plunged five stories from the roof of her building on East 25th Street near Third Avenue around 8 pm on Saturday, officials said.
Emergency responders brought Hamilton to Bellevue Hospital with a fractured pelvis, broken right ankle and broken right arm. She was in a critical but stable condition Sunday.
Reilly Hamilton, 22, plunged five stories from the roof of her building on East 25th Street near Third Avenue around 8 pm on Saturday, officials said. She suffered multiple injuries
Dayo Adebanjo, 22, said he heard a loud crash and then heard screaming from the top of the building when the incident happened.
He told New York Daily News: 'I kind of thought that someone fell but I was like, "No way."' Then there was a brief period of silence when the girls were running down.'
Adebanjo heard the women saying: "Reilly, oh my God, oh my God, Reilly, Reilly, is she dead? Is she dead?."
She looked out her window and saw Hamilton lying on the ground of an open space between two buildings.
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'It was really, really obviously horrible to witness. I heard her crying as her friends screamed that she was going to be okay.
'And when they were moving her, she was conscious. She was saying her legs hurt.'
Hamilton and her two roommates reportedly had access to the roof. Another neighbor, who did not wish to be named said: 'She was taking pictures, and she fell, and apparently she hit the AC unit and landed in the trash area, which is like, horrendous.
A neighbor claimed Hamilton was taking pictures with friends on the roof of a building when she fell suddenly
'Horrible. I’m just completely shocked.'
Adebanjo said the West Virginia native graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2018. She also works in human resources for a digital technology company, according to the New York Post.
A neighbor in the building who didn’t want to identify himself told New York Daily News that he heard 'a massive party' for the past two days.
'I went to work and they were partying. Even when I got back at 6 am, they were partying.'
Last month Sydney Monfries, 22, fell between a gap in the stairs inside the clock tower in the early hours of Sunday morning. She plunged 40ft and sustained fatal injuries to her head
The incident comes one month after after Fordham senior Sydney Monfries, 22, fell 40 feet to her death inside the Bronx campus’s Keating Hall clock tower.
The journalism student and her friends had broken into the off-limits structure because they saw it as a 'rite of passage' as seniors and wanted to get photographs for their Instagram pages, according to their peers.
Sydney uploaded a video to Snapchat moments before she died from inside, captioning it 'bell tower'.
After she fell, she was rushed to Saint Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx.
Sydney was due to graduate this month. The university has said it will award her her degree posthumously.
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