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.
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.
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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