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Subscribe to RSSNEW YORK -- Police say a woman who plunged to her death from a Bronx high-rise made a chilling 911 call shortly before her fall, in which another woman could be heard saying, "You're not going to leave here alive."
Late Friday they arrested a woman in connection to her fall.
Sienna Edwards died Thursday after falling 14 stories from the balcony of an apartment on East 179th in the Tremont section.
Police now believe that the 20-year-old fell while trying to escape a group of women who were threatening to kill her, after apparently mistaking her for someone else.
Edwards' boyfriend told reporters she had gone to the home as a favor for her boyfriend, who needed help delivering birthday presents to his 3-year-old daughter. The boyfriend is not allowed in the apartment because the mother of his daughter has an order of protection against him, sources said.
Late Friday, police arrested the little girl's mother, Kenya Edmonds, on murder and manslaughter charges.
This article includes reporting by Shimon Prokupecz of NBCNewYork.com and The Associated Press.
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OK. so NY has a death penalty on moratorium. Send them to jail for life. See ya!!!
Life in prison seems suitable!
Just wondering if Sienna Edwards would also think that "Life in prison seems suitable" for her murderrer.
What do you think??
I think she's dead.
Your insight is astounding... I'm sure it's gotten you far.
You know how to use sarcasm, but you sure don't know how to recognize it!
Life in Prison is in-humane. The Death Penalty is the only humane choice.
Too expensive
Life @ 30k a year for Max Security. Therefore 30 years = 900k
Execution average cost in the US is 25 million.
Other than that I have no objection; Hang 'em with wire.
The death penalty is barbaric. All civilized nations have long since abandoned state sanctioned murder as an option in their penal codes. I hope the United States will one day decided to stop murdering its citizens as punishment for crimes. The death penalty is a national embarassment and a disgrace. The premediated killing of a human being is ALWAYS wrong, without exception. It doesn't matter if it is a thug in the back ally or the state in a lethal chamber; the result is the same a human has been murdered.
Unless its a human in their earliest stages of development (first 9 months in the womb), then they are fair game.
$10 says she was telling stories.
Must be the gun-banners took the night off.
I'm all for bringing back 'death by firing squad', hell make it a beheading. Personally I would like to see some people strapped down to an open backed chair, a countdown timer in front of them and when it hits 0 they get a bullet through the heart. The worse we can make death the better, maybe then we can eliminate people doing dumb @!$%# like this. An innocent person killed by someone didn't know there was a countdown on their life, let the perp know the countdown till the final moment.
Am I the only one who finds the title of this story offensive--Bronx Plunge?
This is not a joke. This young woman was apparently murdered by a gang of sub-humans. She probably also had family and friends. How would you like to see the falling death of your loved one described as "Bronx Plunge?" Insensitive to say the least. Disgusting, really.
Where's Jesse and Al on this one? Oh...it's just black bitches on black bitches...no problem!
RIP. Hope for justice.
Vince, citizens aren't put to death in the US for crimeS. They are put to death in the US for murder alone. While I agree that the death penalty costs too much for what it's worth I, neanderthal that I am, still like thinking of some of these monsters being scared for a few minutes before they are finally put out of our misery. Make no mistake, the group of sub-humans, that did this are monsters and cowardly ones at that. Hate hearing of a group scaring someone to their death.
SHe was trying to get away from a group of women? Jeeze the mean girl mentality is getting out of control. You can't kill someone for dating your ex! Sounds like the baby-mama needed an order of protection against herself!
Now that baby is going to have no parents. Hope it was worth it for her and her friends to show how tough they were!!!
bye bye bitches
hmmmm. no pics of the perps.....
With a name like Kenya, you already know what she looks like.
My friends name is Kenya, she was named after her dad Ken. Guess what-blue eyed blonde.
Enjoy prison forever.
Wow. What absolutely horrible lives some people have.
No word when Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are starting the march.
What a racist loser. Bet your dog doesn't even like you.
Is it a black Lab?
Why don't people understand this. Zimmerman shot a kid, wasn't arrested. These ladies threatened this woman so she jumped, at least one gets arrested.
This is why the protests are happening. Your inability to see the difference is significant, and disturbing.
No, HChris, what IS especially disturbing is that most people heard about what happened to Trayvon in FL, read about it on the internet, saw it on the news and think they have all of the evidence. THAT, is what is disturbing.
F Walsh,
Is that directed at me? What evidence did I claim to have? I said Zimmerman shot Trayvon. Is that disputed? No. He shot an unarmed kid, he says it was self defense, but there was no investigation by the police to confirm his claim. That's why people are upset.
Yes there was. The police report has been released.
Let me guess. They were black. Where is Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton, the DumbMass Panthers, NAACP on this one? No publicity?
Because this case has more to do with a woman scorned than being black. So where are the feminists?
Damn, I truly weep for America, if you represent the average person.
You are far from the average american.
Let me guess, you are a red-neck racist?
Everyone,EVERYONE likes their own people better.It is these times brought to us by greed and ineptitude that have splintered our society
why would there be a need to protest over this? Arrest made, justice proceeds, right?
No. She could be released for lack of evidence. Just like in another incident being reported recently.
I begrudge these vermin the very air that they breathe. It takes time to fall 140 feet. Far to long a time and far to short a time. Humanity no longer means what it should. If we continue in this direction, I have no doubt it will come to mean virtually nothing.
You have to look at the numbers of people who are appalled, outraged, disgusted, and dismayed over an incident like this and compare those numbers to the number of animals involved. Humanity as a whole isn't threatened by these acts of inhumanity until the majority approves.
I think I would have put the present at the door and just not walked in. That said; I wonder why the boyfriend has an order of protection against him by the mother of his child...nevermind. This is about someone getting killed.
Now the kids get to go to foster homes (or grandma) to be raised. Mom's in prison and Dad's unfit (according to the protection order - if he can't visit the children, he certainly cannot gain custody.)
Seems like the wise thing would have been to ask the social worker (or a bicycle messenger, UPS, etc.) to deliver the presents.
Considering that the woman who had the protection order has apparently murdered someone for no reason, I would hope the court would take another look at why the protection order was issued in the first place. Could it be that she lied to the court because she had her own agenda? She seems to be the type of person who would do or say anything to get her own way. At least the father was sending his kid birthday presents. He was also obeying the court order which lends even more credence to him.
NAACP--National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Black is not a color....?
Our once great society appears to be headed back to the jungle.
After the slaughter of the native Americans the great society appeared?
After the freeing of the slaves the great society appeared?
LBJ's great society?
::Sigh::
Takenaka, a civilization can be considered "great" and still have faults. Consider the case of the Romans-- they are considered to have the greatest empire in history, yet they traded slaves, slaughtered people in the coliseum, persecuted religious factions at odds with the political hierarchy, assassinations were frequent, class disparity was stark, some emperors engaged in incestuous relationships, etc. Greatness lies in overall accomplishments, not in perfection.
The society you imagine does not exist, nor has it ever. I think the perfection that you desire is incompatible with human beings at our current level of evolution.
Go ahead. Say it. "Ban Handguns." I know you want to...
WMG...this is one of the best posts I've read on here in a while. Thank you for making absolute sense!
He can't, no gun used this time.
But he may call for banning all buildings over 2 stories.
Another hate crime, where's Al and Jessie? Protest, walk, rant, rave, reward, give out address, order pizza.
Another uneducated post. This would not be a hate crime.
Define the parameters for a hate crime.
@ cunical
I am confused about that, or is it mislabeled? I have never heard of anyone getting killed, torchered, or maimed by someone who likes them
"Hate crime" is one of those terms that just irks me. Like the term "reverse racism," it does nothing to help anyone and only serves to increase tension and division. Racism is not a vector- it either is racism or isn't; and most crimes have at their root hate of some kind. I blame the media for such lexical stupidity.
How Horrible, 5 seconds of sheer terror.
I didn't see anything about a "Hate Crime", or do I need to get my computer checked?
White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, etc. are all going through this. MOSTLY GANG "BITCHES".
SOME BITCH WANTS REVENGE, AND GETS A POSSE TOGETHER. GOD KNOWS THAT SHE DIDN'T HAVE THE GUTS TO DO IT ON HER OWN, OR KNEW THAT HER @$$ WAS GOING TO GET KICKED!, so bring in some friends to show the victim a thing or two.
Lot's more to come from this, as the "Mother" arrested will FINGER her friends for time off the sentence.
A group versus 1 person. What a fair deal.
I can almost bet that these mouth's will need a good greasing at the oil change dealer, after they finish copping out, and turning in their boyfriend's (unsolved crimes) for sentence reduction.
Normal for NYC, LA, Chicago. Only worthy of marches where this is not normal.
Sheesh
We are 370 million. why do we get our underwear in a knot when a slew of morons do something outrageous. For a week we have been tore up over the perception of racism.
I may be wrong about this but I think that the Blacks should hang with the Anglo's.... When the Spanish reach 51% of the US population, Blacks may live to find out that whitey is not so bad after all.
Is everything and anything an opportunity to attack the president for you right wing people?
I have to ask, what is this comment in response to? You were the first one to mention the president.
Being from Canada, it is likely that Eric is a hoser, and should take off, eh.
Why are you white people so damned racist? I don't see any ignorant posts in these articles about white people killing their kids, their wives, the entire office, the entire school? You JUMP at the chance to go to articles with blacks in them and post your racist rants. There will be 50 pages here before you know it, but only 5-6 when whites kill people. You are a SICK LOT!
You had the same idea as I when I read the rants, but didn't try to throw gas on a fire already going.
Sorry folk's, but some of these spew ????
commentingbecauseican
BTW: Commenting.... I am white, and this goes on way too much in ALL ethnic back rounds.
It seems like this country has gone back to the 50's and 60's again, but the color barrier has gone to rich versus the poor. Color has nothing to do with anything.
JUST AS LONG AS THE COLOR IS GREEN AND HAS A FACE ON IT!
You seem have a racist view of white people in general. You did not say "some of you white people", but you did say "you white people", thus implying all of them. That is racist, pure and simple, and makes you a hypocrite in the bargain. Fail.
It seems now more than anytime I can remember, everything has to come down to race. This article is about a lady loosing her life, and has nothing to do with race, bigotry, or hate, other than one person hating another enough to kill them. In the last twenty years, I have worked, and been friends with any group of people you can think of. They have have been black, white, Latino, Asians, from the north, south, east coast, west coast. In every group I have come across people there have been bigots, and raciest. That to me just seems to be human nature, it is growing now I think because of the media, and because of the so called "social media", in other words an easier way to spread the hate around. There will always be people of one group that hates a people of another group just because they are different, all we can do is strive to not be like them, to accept people for how they are, not our perception of how we think they are. We are all bigots, and raciest to some degree, but we need to strive to put those feelings away, not listen to the hate being spread by the media as they slant their story's to achieve their purpose of beating the other news groups so they can get the advertising dollars. Because as doem309 stated, it's all about the green folks, that's why they like to keep the hate going.
They want to cull sharks in the waters off of Australia, how about culling these heathen wenches from society. Life? Give 'em death!
Oh no, another case of mistaken identity. Tragic really! Now, helping a friend can get you killed. W.T.F. were these women thinking? Murdering someone for what? An exhusband, exboyfriend? Wow! How simple minded of them!
I'm sure all the men involved were the opposite of worthless
Not only did she have an order of protection against the guy, she also seemed to have a slew of lady "hit men" to protect her. Makes me wonder the real reason the guy sent his girlfriend! You can bet the guy will disappear for sure....one way or the other.
No doubt?NO mistake?Absolutley,100% certain?Many.many ways to kill a person quickly and humanely.The inhumane part is waiting decades and spending tons of money on a baby making disgrace of a human being.Congrats girls,you're as bad as us men!
She is one scary looking lady. Maybe mug shots turn out that way.