Egg Tossing Teen Falls to Death from Harlem Roof

19-year-old David Diaz (pictured here with his former girlfriend) recently moved from Harlem to the Bronx, but on the last night of his life he was palling around with friends in his old neighborhood, tossing eggs off a roof on West 135th Street. When one of their targets headed up on the roof to confront the teens—wielding a knife according to one report—the youths scattered. The Daily News says that Diaz, his right arm in a sling from a football injury, tried to escape by jumping over a brick wall he thought separated one building from another. Instead, he fell six stories to the courtyard below. "All you heard was 'Boom! Boom!" says David Ruiz, president of the building's tenant association. He tells the News that Diaz "hit an air conditioner and then the [ground] floor. But he was alive. This kid was so strong he kept... [read full story]