Teenager killed in fall from four-story building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn

CROWN HEIGHTS (WABC) -- A teenager was killed Thursday in a fall from a Brooklyn building.

The incident happened at 1153 President Street in Crown Heights.

Family members gathered on President Street, and they cried and tried desperately to console each other on this night that had grown, suddenly so much colder.

A 15-year-old boy died trying to jump from one rooftop to another.

"Lately, I've been seeing them up there," a resident said.

15-year-old Tyhreek Riley was on the President Street rooftop with friends after school Thursday, when he attempted to jump over the several foot gap between buildings that residents call the air well.

Neighbors say teenagers start playing on the roof as soon as the weather gets warmer.

"They're always up there, I say, 'You guys get down from there," during the after school hours, I'm a teacher, when I come home from school they're running around up there, and I can hear them because I live on the top floor," a resident said.

Some other teenagers say that they've heard teenagers are doing it a lot lately, daring one another to jump from one building to the rest.

It doesn't look that far, it looks like you could make it. But Tyhreek didn't make it, and he died in the fall from the roof of the four-story building.

"He's a nice little boy, he has manners, he's my friend. He always give a smile whenever he pass, I can't say anything bad about him," said Grizelda Dawson, a pastor.