NYU Professor Suicide

After a heated argument with his wife over the care of his newborn twins, Sam Roweis, a computer science professor at New York University, committed suicide. Such a sad case when anyone choses to take their own life but even worse that he leave behind two newborn babies.

Investigators said the agitated educator stalked into a back room of his apartment in the Washington Square Village housing complex and went off a balcony so quietly that his wife did not realize what had happened until she couldn’t find him.

He landed in the courtyard of the building between LaGuardia Place and W. Third St.

“The wife came down and asked if it was true somebody jumped,” said a doorman at the NYU staff housing complex. “When we told her, she just started wailing.”

Police said the victim was in his late 30s, but declined to give his name or describe his work at NYU.

A building worker said the couple had been arguing over the care of their young twins, a girl and a boy.

“But he seemed to be a very happy guy, so no one expected anything like this,” the worker said.

SOURCE: NYDAILYNEWS