BY Samuel Goldsmith
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, March 19th 2010, 4:00 AM
A Greenwich Village woman who lost the use of her legs in a subway accident plunged to her death Thursday after cops said she somehow vaulted herself off an eighth-floor balcony.
Patti Gregory was still breathing when firefighters pulled her from the second-floor terrace at her building on LaGuardia Place and W. Third St.
But the 50-year-old mom died a short time later at nearby St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan.
"This was no accident," a police source told the Daily News. "She was on the balcony up on the eighth floor and got herself over."
A close friend said he and the woman's heartbroken husband, author Danny Gregory, were not ready to call her death a suicide.
"I don't know how she could get over the railing. She's handicapped. She's in a wheelchair," said Patrick Doran, 42.
Gregory's spinal cord was severed in 2002 when she fell on the subway tracks as the train barreled into the station, Doran said.
From: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/03/19/2010-03-19_paralyzed_mom_in_death_plunge.html
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