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A 21 year old Hunter College student committed suicide by jumping off the West Building at 67th and Lexington yesterday afternoon. Anton Frolov had sneaked onto the 20 floor building's roof earlier, but had been escorted off by security guards. But 15 minutes later, at 5:40PM, Frolov managed to get back onto the roof and jumped before guards could stop him.
A witness told the Post, "It was like a blown tire. It was so loud, I knew something was wrong as soon as I heard it." It was so loud that some people in the area called 911 and reported gunfire or a bomb, according to the Times. Another witness told the Daily News that a priest gave Frolov last rites "but he was already dead. It's heartbreaking."
Frolov's family lives in Midwood. The Daily News reports that some believe Frolov had been depressed about his mother's death. Hunter College said, "Our hearts go out to the student's family for their tragic loss."
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your headline needs fixin'.
no, no, i really think that the school decided to take the plunge.
maybe sharing the purple school color with NYU gave it some ideas...
Hunter College jumps to its death! weird.
In terms of proof reading, it helps to read things outloud. I was always told this in college and HS.
What a shock! Hunter College seemed so happy last time we chatted.
Everybody screw up tonight, everybody Jen Chung tonight.
If we spent our days trying to fix the grammatical missteps of Jen Chung, we'd be busy, busy people. It's unfortunate how a blog of this size is able to get away with such messiness.
Do you guys have lives? Is this how you get your rocks off? Fixing typos on a blog?
holy shit, i think i went to high school with this kid.
Why wasn't the door to the roof locked? This is just one of the reasons why doors leading to the roof in large buildings are locked and alarmed.
Hunter College seems negligent.
Why wasn't the door to the roof locked? This is just one of the reasons why doors leading to the roof in large buildings are locked and alarmed.
Hunter College seems negligent.
a person who wants to commit suicide will find a way to commit suicide. hunter college should not be held negligible. if he killed himself by sticking his head in an oven in his dorm room, would they be negligible?
Dorm rooms don't have ovens. If anything he'd just be searing his head with a hot plate.
i had a dorm that had a kitchenette. with an oven. so, yes, some dorm rooms do have ovens.
I think I might have had a class with this kid, and went to high school with him on top of that. This is sad. As a Hunter student I can easily say that security there is a joke - but I can't say it's the school's fault. This dude would have found another way to commit suicide as jvm basically said.
Hunter was not following commonly accepted security procedures. If they had, the door leading to the roof would have been locked. No one is saying that the college could have prevented this tragedy. Not only was Hunter lax in its security procedure, but it was also endangering the lives of the pedestrians below by allowing unimpeded access to its roof. It is basic security that the doors to the roof be locked. Just ask any manager of security at any large public building.
How much do you want to bet that those doors leading to the roof are locked now?
But there are roof areas for students to congregate.....
JVM:
The word is negligent! "Negligible" means something completely different.
Just where are those roof areas at Hunter for students to congregate? Oh, yeah. I forgot about the revolving roof restaurant....
Actually he attempted twice, only to succeed the second time. In his first attempt, the door's alarm went off and the security guards stopped him and told him to leave. The second time he jumped before the guards could reach him.
I wouldn't like to be any of these guards right now.
Hunter does have a large outdoor patio on the roof of the West building. I graduated in 2004, and (back then atleast) the doors were always unlocked. I used to go up there to smoke and study in between classes.
It was a nice roof deck. You honestly can't expect the college to lock up such a great place on the off chance that a student is suicidal. Might as well go around childproofing the whole building.
This was a family friend of mine. His mother is not dead, so I don't know where they got that idea from.
His mother wasn't dead, he told the police that so he could get away with not being arrested the first time they caught him... Must have been one terrible mess. He always said how he wanted to die. I'm glad he didn't take anyone with him in this sick and twisted plot of his. Let's just say his story came to an end and he got the wrong kind of fame he craved.
His mother wasn't dead, he told the police that so he could get away with not being arrested the first time they caught him... Must have been one terrible mess. He always said how he wanted to die. I'm glad he didn't take anyone with him in this sick and twisted plot of his. Let's just say his story came to an end and he got the wrong kind of fame he craved.
Only God could know a man's heart. I pray God forgave him before he expired. If not, then he went from the frying pan right into the fire.
When there's nothing to live for, these are the solutions only a man can come up with.