Tragic twist after mum jumps to her death from Niagara Falls with two young kids

Chianti Means, 33, jumped into Niagara Falls connected Monday with her 2 children - Roman Rossman, nine, and five-month-old Mecca - with constabulary truthful acold failing to find their bodies

Hopes are fading the bodies of a parent who jumped disconnected Niagara Falls and her 2 children this week volition ever beryllium found.

Chianti Means, 33, climbed implicit the information obstruction astatine the New York waterfall with lad Roman Rossman, nine, and five-month-old babe Mecca and leapt to their deaths. The tragic incidental happened connected Monday, nevertheless constabulary are inactive searching for their bodies utilizing unmanned aircraft.

Tourists reportedly watched successful fearfulness arsenic Chianti, Mecca and her older child, fell to their deaths. After respective days however, it is increasing much and much improbable the remains of the trio volition ever beryllium found.

Several 1000 tons of h2o walk implicit the falls each second, with immoderate bodies of jumpers recovered hundreds of miles distant acknowledgment to the sheer unit of the waterfall. Emergency services responded to the parkland connected Luna Island, a tiny land betwixt the American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls, astatine astir 9pm connected Monday.

A spokesperson for the constabulary said : "On October 28, 2024, astatine astir 9:00 PM., New York State Park Police and the New York State Police, Bureau of Criminal Investigation responded to an incidental connected oregon astir Goat Island successful Niagara Falls, NY.

"Investigation determined 3 individuals, Chianti Means, 33-years-old, Roman Rossman, nine-years-old and Mecca Means, five-months-old each crossed implicit information guild obstruction and went implicit Niagara Falls connected Luna Island. The probe has determined this incidental was intentional successful nature, though the circumstances stay nether investigation.

"New York State Park Police and State Police search/rescue efforts were conducted with antagonistic results. This incidental deems nary nationalist menace to safety." A subordinate of the New York State Police said successful an interrogation with WKBW TV: "They went determination and they ne'er came out.

"So that's wherever we're at. [...] Like I said there's a batch of information railings, a batch of information measures astatine the authorities parkland truthful it's not thing wherever they conscionable stumbled in."

According to the Falls' website, the radical of 3 waterfalls ne'er halt flowing owed to its beardown currents of the 3,160 tonnes of h2o that travel implicit the falls each second, adjacent successful freezing temperatures.

It was revealed connected Thursday Ms Means antecedently shared a connection connected Facebook astir however her kids were her "reason to live". In January 2017, she shared a picture, which read: "I emotion my son! I gave him life... helium gave maine a crushed to live."

A adjacent person of Ms Means, who is thought to person been a home unit counsellor, said she is "sick to her stomach" implicit the tragic news.

Expressing her grief connected Facebook , Mich Molina, a person of the family, said: "I can't adjacent carnivore to constitute a station astir her and stock memories. I americium virtually sick to my tummy and I can't adjacent woody with the emotions I americium feeling. Just cognize her and her children are dearly loved by maine and my children."

Another person wrote successful tribute: "You truly ne'er cognize what anybody is going through…" Writing online, different idiosyncratic said: "This lawsuit is truthful sad!! I privation she would person talked to someone... My bosom and prayers spell retired to each her household and friend."