Overview
- Police say officers responded around 9:30 a.m. Thursday after the student went out a fifth-floor window at the Upper East Side campus.
- He was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center and was pronounced dead at approximately 11:45 a.m., according to authorities.
- The student's name has not been released pending notification of relatives, and officials have shared limited additional details.
- Multiple outlets report he had been waiting to see an administrator about a disciplinary matter before going to the fifth floor, according to police accounts and sources.
- A later report cited law-enforcement sources saying the discipline related to comments in an ethics class and a possible phone confiscation, while the school announced counseling support and said the building was open to students Friday.