A rather disturbing post shared by Daily Mail reveals that former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst has committed suicide by jumping from a skyscraper to her death in New York City on Sunday morning.
The sad news was recorded hours after the beauty goddess took to Instagram to bid the world goodbye saying, ‘May this day bring you rest and peace.’
The deceased was a lawyer and also worked as a correspondent for the entertainment show Extra. She won the Miss USA pageant in 2019 using her platform to speak out about social and criminal justice reform.
Daily Mail recalls Kryst had an apartment on the ninth floor of the luxury building on West 42nd Street in midtown Manhattan and that was where she leaped from the 29th floor of the 60-story high-rise around 7:15 am and was found dead on the snow-covered sidewalk.
Police found a note in the apartment stating she wanted to leave everything to her mother, a former pageant winner. There was no explanation for her actions in the note. ‘Not only beautiful but she was smart — she was a lawyer,’ a police source told the New York Post. ‘She has a life that anyone would be jealous of. … It’s so sad.’
As Miss North Carolina, Kryst captured the Miss USA tiara wearing a sparkly winged outfit for the national costume competition, in a nod to Maya Angelou’s ‘I Know Why the Caged BIrd Sings.’ During the competition, she described herself as a ‘weird kid’ with a ‘unibrow’ who’s now part of the first generation of truly empowered women.
Kryst was born in Jackson, Michigan, to a white, Polish-American father and black mother, April Simpkins, a winner of Mrs.
North Carolina in 2002. She grew up in Charlotte and graduated from the University of South Carolina.
She went on to get her law degree from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she was involved in a number of activities, including the National Black Law Students Association, according to her LinkedIn page.
After passing the bar, she worked as an associate attorney at Poyner-Spruill LLP in Charlotte between September 2017 and May 2019 as a member of the firm’s civil litigation team.
Information from Daily Mail was added to this report.
