'One person changed an entire school in 20 minutes': Shock as bullied teen takes a running jump to his death from school roof



A 15-year-old leapt to his death from the roof of his high school, as horrified classmates looked on.

Drew Ferraro climbed a building on campus and took a running jump off a ledge, right after the fourth period, at the beginning of the school's busy lunch hour.



Dozens of teens witnessed the student’s deadly fall from a three-story building in the central quad at Crescenta Valley High School, in a suburb of Los Angeles .

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Bullied: Sophomore Drew Ferraro, 15, jumped to his death from a building on Friday on the campus of Crescenta Valley High School

Ninth grade student Michael Kim, said he 'heard a thump' as he was heading to lunch from his class on the third floor.

He was singing a popsong with his friends when they entered the quad and saw the crowd and the boy's body.



Michael, 14, told the Sacramento Bee 'I was pretty much just shocked. My jaw just - it dropped,' . 'We never expect something like that in this kind of neighborhood at this school,' he said.

The mood at the school changed instantly, he said: 'It's just weird because everyone just started caring' about each other.'

'One person changed an entire school in 20 minutes. '

11th grade student Seline Babayan said: 'We saw the body on the floor and it was just all blood, everywhere,' said. 'Everyone was traumatised; They were crying. It was horrible — I didn’t even want to look — so I just turned around.'

Close friend Olin Tellefsen said Ferraro was a clever, funny kid who played football and loved heavy metal music and gigs. He had friends.



But he was also troubled by the taunts of classmates, he said, and had been haunted by a fight he had last year with several boys.



Tellefsen said, 'He always seemed like he had something on his mind but it was never…never indicative of anything like this.'



Deadly plunge: The student fell from a three-story building in the central quad at Crescenta Valley High School, in La Crescenta, a suburb of Los Angeles

Tragic: Drew climbed a three story building on campus and took a running jump off a ledge during the school's busy lunch hour

Ferraro’s friend Meghan Dorosy, who witnessed the teens suicide, told KCAL-TV she saw blood.



'I started shaking and I felt sick to my stomach and walked away, and then I called my parents and just went into tears,' she said,



'He definitely was bullied and he didn’t want to go to schoo l, and I know how it feels because I was bullied and I didn't want to go to school.'

The school was temporarily placed on lockdown, a watch commander at the Crescenta Valley Station told CBS News.



A candlelit vigil was held on Friday. Grief counselors will be on the campus next week when the school reopens on Tuesday , after a holiday on Monday.



Candlelit vigil: Friends say the teen was taunted

Parents collected their children from the emergency gate many of them waiting for hours as students were released, one by one.



'They’re shook up,' said Kim Arnold, who was waiting outside for her two daughters while maintaining phone contact. 'They’re all together, and, I think, having all the kids grouped together on the field…they’ve been able to talk and hold each other. It’s tragic, it’s just horrible.'



Superintendent of Schools Dr. Richard Sheehan said in a statement, according to KTLA TV.

