A 23-year-old Bronx mother died protecting her baby after both were allegedly shoved from a 15th-floor balcony, and police are now hunting a man wanted in the case.
Nathaly Ramirez and her infant daughter were found outside a Bronx apartment building early Tuesday after a fall from a 15th-floor balcony, and Fox News reported that detectives later determined both had been pushed.
Ramirez, 23, was pronounced dead at a hospital. Her baby was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. By Wednesday, the NYPD had named Angel Carrasco, 31, as wanted in connection with the incident and released his image. No arrests had been made, and the investigation remained open.
The scene was outside 2550 Olinville Ave. Officers responded to a 911 call at about 3:38 a.m. Tuesday and found the mother and child with injuries consistent with a fall from an elevated position.
Further investigation led the department to a blunt conclusion about what happened on that balcony.
"Further investigation determined that both individuals had been pushed from a balcony,"
the NYPD stated, according to the reporting.
Investigators believe Ramirez tightly embraced her daughter during the fall. Neighbor accounts described a desperate plea from the apartment before the pair hit the ground outside the building.
Neighbors cited by local outlets recalled her screaming, “Please don’t do this!” The picture that emerged was of a young mother trying to shield an infant in the final seconds of her life.
Domestic-violence cases often turn on disputed intent and shifting defenses, a pattern familiar from coverage of other high-profile killings, including when a mistress texted about wanting a wife dead and later told a jury divorce, not murder, was the plan.
The New York Post reported that Carrasco was Ramirez’s estranged boyfriend and the father of the child, and that he had brought flowers in an attempt to reconcile before the fatal confrontation. That account identified the baby as Angel Novalty Carrasco-Ramirez and said the infant was later listed in stable condition at Jacobi Hospital while still fighting for life.
A building tenant described what she heard in the moments before impact.
Robin Mendzies told the Post she heard a male voice and then the aftermath on the ground below.
"I heard someone shouting, ‘Jump!’ It was a male voice. Then I heard a big thud and a woman wailing, ‘No please, no!’"
A high school friend framed Ramirez’s final act in plain terms.
"In the last moment of her life she was protecting her daughter,"
Dominique Rosado told the Post.
The Post reporting said Carrasco faced prior domestic-violence charges against Ramirez from January, including assault and burglary. That history matters because the fatal fall did not arrive without warning signs in the same building.
A neighbor identified only as Mike recalled a man trying to force his way into Ramirez’s apartment earlier in the year.
"He was kicking the door down trying to get into the apartment,"
Mike said, in an account carried in the coverage of the case.
An unnamed woman who lived two doors down said she had heard yelling from the apartment on numerous occasions. Those neighbor statements do not replace an official charging document. They do show that conflict around that unit was not invisible to the people living next door.
When family violence ends with death, courts and the public later argue over insanity claims, evidence fights, and accountability, much as they have when hosts slammed a lawyer for flipping defenses in another case of a parent accused in family killings.
In its Wednesday update, the NYPD identified Carrasco as the man detectives wanted and put out his image. The department statement, as reported, did not spell out his relationship to Ramirez and did not announce charges. Tips were directed to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS or through the department’s tip site.
That gap between a wanted notice and a completed arrest is where public confidence often frays. A mother is dead. An infant is hospitalized. A named suspect is at large. The record so far does not show a closed case or a courtroom filing that the public can read.
Violent crime stories in New York repeatedly test whether the system treats victims as the priority, a tension also visible in long-running arguments over notorious trials and juror claims, including coverage that challenged a TV host’s holdout-juror story in a grim city case.
What is established across the reporting is straightforward. Ramirez and her baby went over a 15th-floor balcony at the Olinville Avenue building. Police say they were pushed. She died. The child survived the fall badly hurt. Carrasco is the man police want. Neighbors described prior forced-entry drama and repeated yelling. Separate reporting describes a flower-bearing reconciliation attempt, a prior domestic docket, and a father-child relationship police had not detailed in the initial wanted notice.
Several basics remain unsettled in the public record provided so far. Police had not announced filed charges. The department’s early wanted notice did not define Carrasco’s relationship to Ramirez in official language. The absolute calendar dates behind “Tuesday” and “Wednesday” were not locked down in the initial article. The infant’s precise medical outlook beyond critical-then-stable descriptions will be measured in hospital updates, not headlines.
Those holes do not soften what is already known. A 23-year-old woman left a 15th-floor balcony with her baby in her arms and did not survive. Investigators say the push was deliberate. A man police named is still being sought.
Law-and-order cases rise or fall on whether suspects are found, charged, and tried on facts, not spin, the same demand for follow-through seen when federal prosecutors brought charges in major fraud schemes that also involved concealment and related crimes.
For now, Crime Stoppers remains the tip channel, and detectives remain on the hunt. Ramirez’s friends describe a mother who used her body as a shield. The wanted poster describes a man who has not yet faced a judge on this case.
When a mother dies holding her baby after an alleged push from a high floor, the test is simple: find the suspect, prove the case, and stop pretending warning signs were invisible.
