A “depressed” cartoonist plunged to his death from his 15th-floor Chelsea co-op Tuesday, despite his girlfriend’s desperate attempts to grab him and save his life, according to cops and witnesses.
The jumper at 300 West 23rd St. was identified as Jon Medwick, a 62-year-old artist who also held a day job working for WebMD, said police sources and witnesses.
A police source told The Post that Medwick’s 45-year-old girlfriend woke up to find him standing at the window. She tried to grab him and hold him back, but “he slipped away.”
Police responded to a 911 call at the renovated pre-war building around 5:45 a.m.
“When I saw the coroner pulled up, the body bag, the ambulance, I knew something happened,” one person in the building said.
“His apartment is at the back of the building. From what they were saying he jumped from his apartment window.”
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Medwick, who lived in the building for more than a decade and served on its co-op’s board, was described by fellow residents as a “very nice” and “sociable” guy.