3rd Morgan death shock

JPMORGAN WAS rocked Tuesday by the third employee death in the past three weeks after an investment banker jumped from the roof of the global financial giant’s Hong Kong headquarters.

The 33-year-old man climbed to the roof of the Chater House building in the central business district before he took the plunge and landed in a four-lane roadway below, witnesses told the South China Morning Post.

The junior-level employee, whose name was not immediately revealed, ignored attempts by police to talk him down from the top of the 30-story building, the Morning Post reported.

A witness sitting in a nearby Starbucks told the newspaper there was a sickening thud as the man hit the street. “We thought it must have been a car tire (exploding),” the witness told the Morning Post.

The banker’s fatal leap came on the heels of two other out-of-the-blue deaths involving JPMorgan employees — one in London and the other in Connecticut.

In January, JPMorgan tech executive Gabriel Magee plunged to his death at the financial giant’s 33-story London office building. The death of the 39-yearold was immediately declared “nonsuspicious.” Magee hit a ninth-floor roof and died at the scene.

An inquiry into his death remains ongoing, as is an investigation into the death of JPMorgan executive Ryan Crane.

The 37-year-old Crane, who worked in New York City, was found dead Feb. 3 in his Stamford, Conn., home. The cause of death won’t be known until completion of a toxicology report, expected next month. The Harvard University graduate had spent 14 years with JPMorgan.

The banking institution issued a statement Tuesday confirming the latest “sad and tragic incident” in Hong Kong, and noting that police there are investigating.