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WABCA fifth-grade boy died last month after jumping from a second-story window at Grant School in Dumont, N.J.
A 10-year-old New Jersey boy who jumped out of a classroom window to his death last month was upset that his chess opponent didn't say "checkmate" and had apparently threatened to jump several times before, a police report found.
The senseless tragedy at Grant Elementary School in Dumont saw the fifth-grader climb onto a shelving unit and through a gap in a window. He fell approximately 25 feet to the pavement below and died several hours later at a local hospital.
That horrific end apparently followed a verbal threat, but one that was brushed off because it had been heard by fellow students before, according to New Jersey's Record, citing the police report.
"Do you want me to do something drastic?" a lunch aide reported hearing the boy tell his chess opponent moments before, according to the report.
He then stood in a corner of the room and wrote a note which he then handed to his opponent.
He asked the fellow student not to read it until he was in the cafeteria, which everyone in the room was heading to, but it was confiscated by a lunch aide before that could happen.
When the aide looked back at the boy, she said she saw him already climbing toward the window. He was crying, she said.
BANANASTOCK/GETTY IMAGESThe 10-year-old was upset over losing in a game of chess, specifically because his opponent didn't say "checkmate," before he decided to do something "drastic," as he apparently told his opponent.
Students interviewed by police said the boy had previously threatened to jump out the window on at least four occasions.
During one such incident in December, again after losing in a chess match against a student, he allegedly pinched two fingers close together and warned: "I'm this close to jumping out the window!"
The student who recalled that threat to police investigating his death said he didn't think he was serious, so he didn't tell anyone.
In a statement Dumont Police Chief Joseph Faulborn Jr. said the case is closed.
"There was no criminal activity on the part of any individual that would warrant further investigation or criminal charges," he stated.
The boy's parents declined comment when reached at their home by the Record.
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