Man tosses 3-year-old son, self off Manhattan high-rise roof

 A 35-year-old Brooklyn man in a custody battle over his 3-year-old son tossed the toddler off a 52-floor apartment building in Manhattan before plunging to his death Sunday afternoon, law enforcement sources said.Authorities responded to South Park Tower on West 60th Street around noon and found the man, Dmitriy Kanarikov, dead at the scene. The boy, Kirill Kanarikov, was found alive but later died at the hospital, police said.The man and his son landed on two roofs on 59th Street, police said. Neither of them were visible from the sidewalk.Kanarikov had visitation rights with his son, but the boy's mother had custody, law enforcement sources said. The mother was waiting at a police precinct Sunday for Kanarikov to return her son when they plunged from the rooftop. Kanarikov and his son had no obvious connection to the building, and weren't stopped when they walked in, police said. It's not known why Kanarikov chose that spot, but authorities say he knew someone who once lived there.Building residents said they were shocked and saddened."How heartbreaking, how sad it is that there was no one there to stop them, to say, 'Wait, tomorrow is another day," said Ellia Adiel.In March, a woman clutching her baby son in her arms plunged eight stories out of a Harlem apartment window to her death, but the 10-month-old survived. Authorities found a suicide note in her home.

'Make it snow money': Man tosses $1,000 into crowd at Mall of America

 By Simon Moya-Smith, Staff Writer, NBC NewsA Minnesota man was ticketed after he tossed $1,000 in dollar bills from the third floor of the Mall of America into an audience watching a performance there, police said.Vorobyov had allegedly stamped each of the singles with the address to his YouTube page before dumping the money on a crowd Friday, which had gathered in the rotunda for a performance by a trio of vocalists singing, "Let it Snow."Serge Vorobyov said in a YouTube video following the incident at the mall in Bloomington that it was his "last $1,000" and that he's going through divorce."I thought I'd just spread some holiday cheer, be positive and pay-it-forward type of thing," he said in the video. "And make it snow money."As the trio sang the stanza, 'Let it snow', Vorobyov, who was riding an escalator, pulled the singles from a bag by the handful and tossed the money over the railing, prompting the crowd below to audibly gasp and reach to the sky in an attempt to catch the falling bills.Bloomington police gave Vorobyov a ticket for disorderly conduct for the his elaborate stunt, the Star Tribune reported."I don't see how holiday cheer is disorderly conduct," Vorobyov responded.Mall of America spokeswoman Sarah Schmidt told the Star Tribune that it was the first incident of its kind for the mall and said that Vorobyov disrupted the performance and could’ve caused a serious situation.Vorobyov was released at the scene.