SO SAD! MOM SAW HER SON FALLING THROUGH THE AIR TO HIS DEATH!

UPDATE:
The heartbroken Bronx mother of a suicidal Catholic school student actually witnessed his fatal fall - and has been inconsolable ever since.

Augustina Agyemang could barely speak after catching a glimpse of 13-year-old Juda tumbling through the air outside their Norwood apartment Monday.

"She went out onto the terrace when she didn't see him in the living room anymore," Mary Boakye, the boy's aunt, said. "She saw him falling midair. That's why she hasn't been able to talk much. She is in shock."

Augustina Agyemang had just greeted Juda at the door of their apartment on Mosholu Parkway and was cooking him dinner when he jumped from the 21st-story balcony about 5 p.m.

Juda's aunt said he told his mother minutes earlier that he was looking forward to basketball practice that night.

"We have no idea what happened," Boakye said.

In the hours before he leapt, the normally attentive eighth-grader was acting so strangely during an after-school program that staffers called his parents, then escorted him home early.

"He wasn't making much sense in what he was saying," Camp Interactive instructor Jesus Galvez said. "He was engaged and then disengaged."

Galvez said Juda couldn't focus enough to complete an assignment to create a blog on his great love - basketball.

"It wasn't his normal behavior," Galvez said. "It's not an easy thing to take in. One moment this kid is part of our program, and then this happens."

Juda's school, Our Lady of Angels on Claflin Ave., was awash in grief as counselors spent the day consoling classmates.

"We're doing a lot of prayers today," school pastor Thomas Lynch said. "It's just an amazing tragedy.







A 13-year-old boy jumped to his death from the balcony of his high-rise apartment in the Bronx Monday after he was sent home from school for not paying attention, family members said.
Juda Agyemang fell 21 floors and landed in front of the Tracy Towers on Mosholu Parkway shortly after 5 p.m.

Family and friends gathered in the apartment last night, weeping, praying, and struggling to understand what happened to the promising youngster who had just taken the exam for the Bronx High School of Science.

"He was a brilliant boy," Juda's aunt, Mary Boakye, said. "He was a good basketball player, too."

They said Juda had a problem yesterday in an after-school academic program at Our Lady of Angels school on Sedgwick Ave. that got him sent home early for not paying attention.

"His mother met him downstairs," the aunt said. "He told her that he just wanted to go out and play basketball.

"She said yes but he had to eat first. She went to the kitchen to get her son food when she heard a noise from the balcony and he wasn't there anymore,"