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© FacebookSvetlana Bukharina, Dmitriy Kanarikov and their son, Kirill, were once a happy family.

Dmitriy Kanarikov, 35, who was in the midst of a child custody battle with his estranged wife, allegedly threw his toddler, and then himself to their deaths plummeting 52 floors from the roof of a West Side skyscraper.
A distraught dad threw his 3-year-old son and himself off the roof of a 52-story West Side skyscraper Sunday in a holiday death plunge that apparently stemmed from a custody battle, police said.The 35-year-old man, Dmitriy Kanarikov, died after jumping from the Lincoln Square tower at 12:05 p.m. The red-haired tot, Kirill, dressed in Christmas pajamas, died moments later at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, cops said.

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© Andrew SavulichA distraught 35-year-old man threw his toddler off the roof of a 52-story Manhattan building and then jumped to his death Sunday, according to a police source.

His estranged wife, Svetlana Bukharina, boasted on her Facebook page in March, "I have the best husband and son in the world." But apparently their home life imploded in recent months. Kanarikov and Bukharina split and the cherished time he had with Kirill was curbed by a custody fight.

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Detectives in a crime scene van at 124 W60 St., Manhattan, after a 35-year-old man threw his toddler from the roof of the high-rise Sunday.

Their breakup was so fraught with anger that they had to meet in a public place - the NYPD's 17th Precinct stationhouse - to drop off and pick up their son, a source said.

Kanarikov picked up Kirill at 10 a.m. Sunday at the designated precinct and was to return him there at 1 p.m., the source said.



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A body is removed after a man and his 3-year-old son reportedly fell from the roof of a high rise at 124 W60 St., Manhattan.

"This is a private matter for my family and my friends," Bukharina told the Daily News when reached on her cellphone at the 20th Precinct stationhouse.

Cops said the bodies landed on the roofs of two different buildings neighboring the South Park Tower at 124 W. 60th St., where Kanarikov tossed his son and jumped to his death.

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The 52-story building at 124 W. 60th St., where a man threw his little son off the rooftop before jumping to his death.

The father's body was found on the roof of a low-rise building at 425W. 59th St. while the son's landed atop a four-story building at 445W. 59th St., police said.

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Dmitriy Kanarikov lived in this home in Mill Basin, Brooklyn. Neighbors say he lived on the top floor.

t remained unclear Sunday night why Kanarikov, who lived in Brooklyn, went to the luxury high-rise, where apartments rent for $3,300 to $6,350, to end his and his son's lives.

His only connection to the building is that he had a friend who once lived there, a police source said.

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Dmitriy Kanarikov holds Svetlana Bukharina, in happier days. The couple fell out and were locked in a child custody battle.

"He goes into the building with the child. Then, we believe to the roof, based on a witness," the source told The News. "It would appear that he dropped the child and jumped afterward.

One witness told cops of seeing father and son fall past the window of a 29th-floor apartment and others described hearing the sickening thuds of the bodies hitting the rooftops below. "I heard a boom!" said Adam Gutierrez, who works in the emergency room at the nearby hospital. "The way it sounded, they must've jumped from high up."

Luis Ortiz, a maintenance worker, said he was in the emergency room at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital when little Kirill was wheeled in.

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© FacebookThree-year-old Kirill Kanarikov's short life ended Sunday when he was thrown off the roof of the Lincoln Square skyscraperby his distraught father.

"The little boy had Christmas pajamas on," Ortiz told The News. "They were working on him, but nothing. You could tell that he was already slipping away."

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© FacebookThe Kanarikovs when they were a young, happy family.

He said the tragedy, just three days before Christmas, was heartbreaking.

"Being a parent to two kids myself, my heart goes out to his family," Ortiz said. "You gotta take care of your children when they're here."

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Dmitriy Kanarikov and Svetlana Bukharina with their son, Kirill. The couple's breakup was so fraught with anger that they had to meet in the NYPD’s 17th Precinct Stationhouse to drop off and pick up their son, a source said.

While it was unclear what triggered the deadly incident, records show Kanarikov and Bukharina had a recent spat over custody of Kirill.

A source revealed that one of the parents complained that the other failed to return their son to her within his allotted time period.

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The body of Kirill Kanarikov, which landed on the roof of a four-story building, is removed on gurney from apartment house at 124 West 60th St.

Kanarikov's Facebook page is full of photos of his once-happy family. Pictures showed the parents doting over their boy on family outings at the beach.

One poignant photo shows three footprints in the sand - those of two adults flanking the footprint of a child. But tenants at the South Park Tower could not fathom a single justifiable reason for any father to take his child's life.

"You see people and they have a face like yours and mine, it doesn't tell you a story," said Ellie Adiel. "It's shattering to think someone could go that far; that it has to be that bad."

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Police at the scene Sunday at W. 59th St. building (r.) where Dmitriy Kanarikov tossed son Kirill to his death, then took his own life. Kirill had been in the middle of a nasty custody dispute between his estranged parents (r.).