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The story of the 13-year-old who jumped to his death from his Mosholu Parkway apartment building keeps getting more tragic. The Bronx teen's mother — who was cooking dinner for her son when he took his own life — saw him take his fatal leap, the Daily News reports.

Yesterday afternoon, a 13-year-old jumped to his death from his family's apartment terrace at the Tracey Towers on Mosholu Parkway. The Daily News reports that Juda Agyemang "was sent home from school for not paying attention" (according to family members) while the Post says he had been "pulled from his school's basketball team because of poor grades."

Before the end of the weekend, police managed to arrest two suspects in a public shooting in the Bronx street that left three men hospitalized. The incident occurred at 8:30 p.m. Friday night when two groups of men were heard arguing in the street outside of the Tracey Towers on Mosholu Parkway in the Norwood section of the Bronx. Gunshots were fired and two men were hit in the chest and a third was shot in the foot.

Now that Chinese food delivery man, Ming Kung Chen, who was trapped in Bronx elevator for three days, is safe, authorities are turning their eyes on the elevators in question. There has been a long history of elevator problems at Tracey Towers, but questions about why security didn't notice Chen in the elevator via cameras (was Chen only in the blind spot the whole time) or answer any of his alleged calls (did they just ignore them) are being raised. The Daily News put a reporter in one of the elevators, screaming for several minutes: "Someone with their ear pressed against the wall heard only a faint noise. Another person standing a few feet away could hear nothing at all." The hallway walls are concrete. And the NY Times has a great account of the frenzied police search for Chen, which sounds like something out of Law & Order. One man was somewhat disheveled over a blood-like barbecue stain on his shirt:

Troy Smith, 21, arrived home with a friend and was shocked to find officers wearing helmets and flak jackets in his apartment. "They cuffed me right there," he said. "I walked in, and detectives were guarding my door. The door was kicked in." They took him to a precinct and took his stained shirt, he said.

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Ming Kung Chen, the Chinese food delivery man for Happy Dragon in the Bronx, was greeted with happiness and amazement after being stuck in an elevator for three days - and without water or food (he had completed all his deliveries!). Many feared Chen had been killed, as delivery men as frequent targets, and the police were actively searching for him. Somehow, the NYPD and building didn't realize one of the elevators was out, and Chen's repeated cries for help over three days were not heard in the Tracey Towers housing project until yesterday morning. Gothamist is glad that Newsday revealed one of the things everyone is curious about: Besides become dizzy and nearly passing out, Chen did "urinate twice" and ate "apple juice, Rice Krispies cereal and a roll."