A woman who fell from a Bronx building during an argument with her boyfriend two years ago is a homicide victim, authorities said Friday.
Tyshay Culber, 21, died on Aug. 8 — a year and a day after she fell from the roof of a four-story Franklin Ave. building in Morrisania. At the time, her boyfriend, James Ellis, admitted to shoving her in a fit of anger as she stepped backward and fell off the roof.
Ellis said he grabbed her by her arms, but couldn’t pull her back to safety.
“Babe, I can’t hold on any more,” he said before letting go, according to court papers.
Ellis was charged with attempted murder, but the police dropped the case, Culber’s relatives said.
At the time, detectives claimed Culber, who was hospitalized and under sedation, couldn’t give them an accurate account of what happened, relatives said.
“Because (Ellis) stated he was trying to hold her ... as opposed to him actually dropping her ... they released him," said Culber’s great-aunt Lawanda Johnson, 48.
Culber was in and out of the hospital in the year before she died — and was never the same.
