Jul 23, 2007 04:30 AM
Henry Stancu
Adrian Ma
Staff reporters
A teenage boy who broke into a high-rise apartment fell 26 storeys to his death during a botched burglary in the city's east end yesterday afternoon. Toronto police were called to a high-rise complex on Massey Square, near Victoria Park and Danforth Aves., around 2:30 p.m. Ruth Malloy, 78, who lives on the second floor of the apartment building next to the high-rise, said she could see where the body "landed on the grass outside the building, in a bushy spot."
The boy, believed to be about 16, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police say the teen had broken into an apartment on the 26th floor and ransacked the home of cash and jewellery. He was startled when the family living in the apartment ? a mother with two children aged 11 and 13 ? returned home. "They actually tried to keep him in the apartment by blocking the door," Det. Derek Young said. Instead of fighting through the family, the thief moved to the balcony, threw his bag of stolen goods over the side, and began climbing down. "That's when he slipped and fell," Young said. He was not a resident of the building, police said.
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Henry Stancu
Adrian Ma
Staff reporters
A teenage boy who broke into a high-rise apartment fell 26 storeys to his death during a botched burglary in the city's east end yesterday afternoon. Toronto police were called to a high-rise complex on Massey Square, near Victoria Park and Danforth Aves., around 2:30 p.m. Ruth Malloy, 78, who lives on the second floor of the apartment building next to the high-rise, said she could see where the body "landed on the grass outside the building, in a bushy spot."
The boy, believed to be about 16, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police say the teen had broken into an apartment on the 26th floor and ransacked the home of cash and jewellery. He was startled when the family living in the apartment ? a mother with two children aged 11 and 13 ? returned home. "They actually tried to keep him in the apartment by blocking the door," Det. Derek Young said. Instead of fighting through the family, the thief moved to the balcony, threw his bag of stolen goods over the side, and began climbing down. "That's when he slipped and fell," Young said. He was not a resident of the building, police said.
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