Jayah Shaileya Ram Jackson, pictured, went straight to the roof the building where her grandmother lived and jumped at about 10:40 a.m. Thursday, neighbors say.
A tormented 15-year-old girl who mused on Facebook about committing suicide jumped to her death Thursday from the roof of her grandmother’s Upper West Side building, police said.
Jayah Shaileya Ram Jackson’s recent posts portray an emotionally troubled teen who was gripped by loneliness and struggling with depression.
“I'm actually just going to wait for someone to make a petition for me to kill myself because it's inevitable,,, like, we all see it coming,” Jayah wrote on Tuesday.
Two days later, Jayah followed through on her suicidal threats.
The teen walked up to the roof of her grandmother’s Amsterdam Ave. building about 10:40 a.m. and plunged 27 stories, police sources said.
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This building on 94th St. and Amsterdam Ave. is where Jayah Shaileya Ram Jackson, 15, jumped to her death in an apparent suicide Thursday.
“Rest in peace,” a friend wrote on Jayah’s Facebook page Thursday night. “To all the kids that disrespected you they only wanted what you had. Prayers to your family.”
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Jayah — who was a student at NEST+m, a lower East Side school for gifted children — arrived at her grandma’s place earlier in the day and headed straight for the roof, sources said.
A surveillance camera captured her sitting there alone for two hours. Jayah then went downstairs and casually chatted with her grandma for 30 minutes before she returned to the roof and jumped.
The teen gave no indication to her grandmother that she was suicidal and did not leave a note, sources said.
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