Police: Man who jumped from bridge suspected of involvement in double murder of parents

State police said the man who jumped to his death from the 787 on Thursday is a suspect in the murder of his parents in Schenectady.

Police responded to the Patroon Island Bridge around 4 p.m. after receiving a report of a man threatening to jump. The man, identified as Jordan Miklowitz, 35, jumped after authorities arrived on scene.

Brianna Breglia lives close to the crime scene and was shocked when she heard the news.

“I was walking home from work and I came up the street and there were at least seven or eight police cars and they were all in a circle,” Breglia said. “And I noticed there was a police vehicle in the driveway of the house. And later that night they had the whole street blocked off and there were still police cars outside.”

During the investigation, police searched the home Miklowitz shares with his parents on Morris Avenue and found David J. Miklowitz, 75, and Kathryn Miklowitz, 73, dead. An autopsy ruled their deaths a blunt force trauma homicide, police said.

Based on statements he made before his death and evidence collected at the crime scene, Jordan Miklowitz is the prime suspect, police said.

“The basic premise of the case is that this young man took the lives of his parents and himself,” said Schenectady County District Attorney Robert Carney. “There is no evidence to support that.”

Carney could not provide many more details because state police are gathering forensic evidence. No motive has been released.

Carney said police received a call before the killings reporting screaming and noise coming from the home. Officers did not make contact with the residents when they responded, and they left.

They later returned after Jordan Miklowitz committed suicide.

The police said there was no danger to the public.

Schenectady Police also assisted State Police.