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A Bronx family is searching for answers after an 18-year-old teen fell to his death off an elevated parkway near the George Washington Bridge after abandoning a car he’d allegedly used to evade police. Cops said Cesar Martinez jumped out of a stolen vehicle near Broadway and W. 207th St.

in Inwood, where it broke down, and sprinted along the Henry Hudson Parkway toward the bridge in the early hours of Sunday. The fleeing suspect apparently misjudged a gap as he fled and plunged to his death onto Riverside Drive below, police said. His family is struggling to make sense of it all.



“For me, it’s very hard, it’s very painful,” said Xiomara Morel, 41, Martinez’s mother. “Sometimes I realize what happened, but at the same time, I don’t believe it happened to me. I’m confused.

I don’t know. I have so many questions.” Officers from the Bronx’s 52nd Precinct tried to pull the young man over for driving in a stolen car at about 1:30 a.

m., cops said. After Martinez fell, medics took him to Harlem Hospital, where he died of his injuries, officials said.

But everything that happened in between, Morel said, is a mystery. “The last thing that my son said to the police was, ‘I’m not going back to jail,’” Morel said. “The detective told me.

How, if he’s running, he’s going to say to the police, ‘I’m not going back to jail?’ For me, it does not make sense.” Relatives admitted that Martinez had previous run-ins with the law, but they said he was .

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