Convict, 21, films Facebook Live video saying 'I'm about to get arrested' then plunges to his death after tying bed sheets together to escape through his 11th-story window
A New York man plunged to his death after tying bed sheets together and climbing out of an 11th-story window in an attempt to get away from police on Tuesday.
Jamel Chandler, of Brooklyn, broadcasted on Facebook Live just minutes before he took plunged from an apartment in the Fort Greene neighborhood of the borough at around 6pm.
As police knocked the door of the apartment unit, Chandler, 21, tied together several sheets as a way to repel down the building.
But the sheets couldn't hold his weight and he fell to his death after they gave way around the seventh floor, police said.
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