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14-Year-Old Dies After Fall From The Chapin School on Upper East Side

Investigators report no sign of criminality pending medical examiner findings.

Overview

  • NYPD officers found the student outside the East End Avenue campus with injuries consistent with an elevated fall on Wednesday evening.
  • She was transported in critical condition to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and was later pronounced dead.
  • Detectives are examining whether the fall was accidental or a suicide, and no arrests have been made.
  • The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the official cause and manner of death as the inquiry continues.
  • Chapin is an elite K–12 all-girls school with tuition above $68,000, and reporters noted a recent separate fatal fall involving a 16-year-old at Regis High School on the Upper East Side.