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Suicidal Missing Man Found Dead In Lower Manhattan
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Lauren Evans
Published Feb 11, 2015
Modified Feb 11, 2015
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Police discovered the body of a 25-year-old Manhattan man floating in the water near Lower Manhattan today.
Andreas Robbins, whose family and friends had been searching for him since he went missing in December, was found by police floating near South Street between FDR and Broad Street earlier today. The NYPD's Harbor Unit removed him from the water and brought him to Pier 16, where he was pronounced dead.
The medical examiner is currently investigating Robbins' cause of death, though his father, Columbia University Professor Bruce Robbins, told the Post in December that Robbins was suicidal, having left a note in his Stuyvesant Town apartment announcing his intention to jump off the George Washington Bridge.
The elder Robbins was livid at the time that police apparently allocated all of their resources to the protests of Eric Garner's death, and were no longer adequately committed to searching for his son. “A detective basically said, ‘There’s no one out to take your case because everyone is out there dealing with the consequences of the Eric Garner case,"' he told the tabloid at the time.
If someone you know exhibits warning signs of suicide: do not leave the person alone; remove any firearms, alcohol, drugs or sharp objects that could be used in a suicide attempt; and call the U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) or take the person to an emergency room or seek help from a medical or mental health professional.
Update, 5:40 p.m.:According to The Lion, Bruce Robbins wrote in a Facebook note at the time that he was misquoted in the Post:
I don't imagine a lot of you read the New York Post, but to those who do, I owe you an explanation for the article that came out this morning about my son Andreas. I did NOT tell the reporter that the Eric Garner demonstrators were stopping the police from looking for Andreas. I told her that the police were using the demonstrations as an excuse for not doing their job and that this was ironic because it was police misbehavior that caused the whole situation in the first place. For what it's worth, Andreas KNEW Eric Garner-- Garner sold his loosies in front of the building where Andreas used to live, and Andreas talked with indignation about how he had been treated from the day it all happened. Very little has been able to raise my spirits since Andreas disappeared. But last night when the crowds streamed by under our windows, chanting and drumming for Eric Garner, I felt good--for Andreas and for everybody.
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