A man who was chased out of his girlfriend’s apartment for threatening her with a knife fell to his death when he slipped off the fire escape of their Bronx building as he tried to climb back in through a window early Sunday, police said.
The incident started when Pedro Polanco, 27, started arguing with his 36-year-old girlfriend inside their the fifth-floor apartment where they live with their children on E. 182nd St. near Mapes Ave in Belmont around 3:30 a.m.
Polanco allegedly struck the woman and threatened her with a knife before two men intervened and chased him out of the apartment and onto the roof, a police source said.
Polanco then tried to climb down the fire escape in an attempt to re-enter through the window — a route he had taken several times before, according to police.
During his descent, Polanco fell and landed on the pavement.
He died at St Barnabas Hospital a short time later.
He worked here as an assistant, a cleaner for five years,” said Santiago Domingez, 42, the building’s superintendent. “He was very respectful. All the tenants like him.”
Man jumps to his death after attack on girlfriend, cops say
The incident started when Pedro Polanco, 27, started arguing with his 36-year-old girlfriend inside their the fifth-floor apartment where they live with their children on E. 182nd St. near Mapes Ave in Belmont around 3:30 a.m.
Polanco allegedly struck the woman and threatened her with a knife before two men intervened and chased him out of the apartment and onto the roof, a police source said.
Polanco then tried to climb down the fire escape in an attempt to re-enter through the window — a route he had taken several times before, according to police.
During his descent, Polanco fell and landed on the pavement.
He died at St Barnabas Hospital a short time later.
He worked here as an assistant, a cleaner for five years,” said Santiago Domingez, 42, the building’s superintendent. “He was very respectful. All the tenants like him.”
Man jumps to his death after attack on girlfriend, cops say
