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By Colin Mixson
Brooklyn Daily
A Mill Island father hurled his 3-year-old son from the 52nd floor of a Manhattan apartment building on Sunday, before following the boy to his death in a suicide plunge, cops said.
Dmitriy Kanarikov, 35, left his E. 57th Place home between Strickland and Mill avenues in Mill Island early Sunday morning, before meeting his estranged wife and son, Kirill, in Manhattan for three hours visitation, as per the conditions of their custody agreement, the New York Post reported.
Following the visit, Kanarikov was expected relinquish the boy back into the care of his mother at a public location, the 17th Precinct Station house, in the East Side at 1 pm.
But that rendezvous never occurred. Instead, surveillance footage shows Kanarikov leading his young child through the lobby of the W. 60th Street building on the Upper West Side at 11:45 am. Those were the last images taken of Kirill while he was alive.
The three-year old was found shortly after noon on the sixth-floor landing of South Park Tower, 46 stories down from the rooftop his father hurled him from, cops said.
The boy was rushed to the nearby Roosevelt Hospital in cardiac arrest, but he was beyond hope of saving, and passed away despite the best efforts of paramedics.
“They were pumping his chest and working on him, and nothing” said Luis Ortiz, speaking to the New York Post. “It was just heartbreaking . . . They tried to do the best they could.”
Kanarikov’s body was discovered on a different rooftop than his murdered son, on the fourth-floor landing of a John Jay College building nearby the Upper West Side apartment tower. He was dead before paramedics arrived, cops said.
The Mill Island resident had been married to his wife, Svetlana, for four years before separating in August, according to the Post.
Svetlana told police that Kanarikov was abusive and they argued over money. A judge had, for a time, forbidden Kanarikov from seeing her or his son, although that order of protection was lifted in September, the Post reported.