A 9-year-boy died last night after he jumped from the roof of his Brooklyn housing project with a makeshift parachute, police sources said.
Domori Miles made his way to the roof of the 13-story Bergen St. building, part of the Albany Houses in Crown Heights, with a parachute made of plastic and some string about 7 p.m., police sources said.
Domori's mother told police she ran out for a quick trip to the store. "My baby, my baby," she cried as shaken relatives helped her out of the building.
"I saw a little boy's body on the grass. They tried to do CPR and rushed him into the ambulance," said Wanda Boone, 41. "They put him on the stretcher and his legs were, like, broken. It happened so fast. It's so sad."
Police said Domori died about an hour later at Interfaith Medical Center. Surveillance cameras that monitor the building caught only a glimpse of the child as he went up to the roof, police said.
Neighbor Jeffery Banks, 40, said he saw the boy fly by his window as he sat inside his apartment with his wife.
He was a "really healthy chubby kid," Banks said.
"I can't get over this," Banks said. "It is unbelievable."
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