Kasey Jones fell to her death from fifth floor fire escape after drinking session

KASEY’S friends begged her to be careful around a steep drop, but she wouldn’t listen. One final, haunting Instagram post later, she was dead.

Woman’s last moments caught on Instagram

WHEN Kasey Jones posted images of herself leaning over her apartment fire escape, her worried friends asked her to stop.

Her casual attitude towards the frightening five-storey drop troubled them. She just didn’t seem to care.

“Well I have a lot of whiskey to help me out,” Ms Jones replied when a friend told her it “scares the bejesus outta me whenever you post these ‘casually leaning over the edge’ pics.”

Those fears were tragically realised yesterday, when the 26-year-old barista fell to her death from the fire escape.

She stood no chance of surviving the fall onto a concrete courtyard below. One neighbour told the New York Daily News the sound of the impact was like “sounded like a boom, like a cinder block hitting the ground really hard”.

It was 2.20am and the noise reportedly woke several neighbours.

Witnesses said Ms Jones had been drinking alcohol before trying to climb down the fire escape.

It seems the precarious ledge was a favourite place for the young woman to hang out and drink booze.

Several of her Instagram pictures had the hashtag #rooftopshenanigans while another, that showed her feet on the rooftop ledge, was captioned: “When in doubt, drink on the rooftop.”

Photo of bottles that police told residents not to touch on the roof where 26-year-old Kasey Jones fell to her death.

Neighbours have speculated that Ms Jones may have used the fire escape because the door to the roof had an alarm and she didn’t want to risk setting it off.

One told the Daily News if you were going to use the fire escape then you had to know what you were doing — because one false step could be fatal.

Tragic...Kasey Jones fell five floors to her death.

“I’m used to climbing that fire escape and if you don’t know how to manipulate yourself on it, you’re going to fall,” said Frances Guerrero, 34, who has lived in the apartment building her whole life.

And trying it while drunk was even worse. “When you are inebriated you don’t use your head.”

It has also been raining and the fire escape would have been slippery.

After the devastating fall, Ms Jones’ flatmate began screaming for help, reported the New York Post.

“Her roommate opened my window,” a neighbour told the newspaper. “She was crying. She said I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”

When asked what happened, the flatmate looked sadly at the ground and replied: “She fell, she fell.’

In the hours before she fell she went about her usual routine, waving to neighbours as she cycled to work.

And in the hours after the plunge — after her body had been taken away and the police had left — several alcohol bottles, including whiskey and gin, could still be seen sitting on the ledge.

Ms Jones had only recently moved to New York from Wisconsin to “live the New York dream,” Ms Guerrero said.

“To be here for such a short time and to go like that, it’s very sad.”

Originally published as Kasey Jones fell to her death from fifth floor fire escape after drinking session