"Residents in the neighborhood of 150th Street and Eighth Avenue were horrified, early Monday evening, when the body of a man hurtled down from the window of the building at 301 West 150th Street to crash on the pavement. Picked up and rushed to Harlem Hospital, the body was identified as that of James Jenkins, 31, of the 150th Street address. He is believed to have been instantly killed... Original rumors about the neighborhood reported that Jenkins... [had] leaped off [the roof]. No motive could be discovered for his suicide, however, and the story was soon found to be distorted."