Police continue to investigate after a woman fell to her death off a balcony in Toronto

Police are trying to piece together how a 30-year-old woman, identified by friends as Mimi Luong, fell to her death. Catherine McDonald reports on why police are not ruling out foul play.

TORONTO – Friends of the 30-year-old who died after falling six storeys from the balcony of her North York condominium early Thursday morning want her remembered as a single mother who did everything for her 13-year-old son.

Global News has learned the victim of what police are calling a suspicious death is Mimi Luong. The community service worker had just graduated from Medix College in June. After finishing her internship, she had been hired at the Christie Ossington Neighbourhood Drop In Centre, working out of the Dovercourt Salvation Army.

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It was 2:20 a.m. Thursday when someone called an ambulance to the building at 1 De Boers Drive, at the corner of the Allen Road and Sheppard Avenue West. Luong had somehow fallen from her sixth floor balcony hitting a glass awning before plunging to the pavement below.

EMS then notified police at 2:30 a.m., calling the incident suspicious. Luong was pronounced dead in hospital Thursday night. Things didn’t seem to add up after police obtained security video from a nearby cafe showing a man, believed to be Luong’s boyfriend, carrying the limp body of the woman after the fall, back into the condominium, with her son walking nearby.

“It was terrifying, it was horrifying, I got goosebumps, I was shaking,” said Alicia Nguyen, a cafe employee who watched the security video with police.

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“She was unconscious right so she was just wobbling around. She looked dead,” Nguyen added. “What you do in that situation is you just call 911 right away, call an ambulance, you shouldn’t move her”.

Sources tell Global News reporter Catherine McDonald, the boyfriend seen on video carrying Luong back into the building is the same man who was seen in the lobby of the condominium last May having a fist fight with a man believed to be Luong’s husband. Police were notified in that case, but later called off.

Neighbour Sahil Jaggi say there was some kind of argument in suite 610, where Luong lived with her son, before the fall. “Just screaming like yes, no,” he said.

Detectives spent the day canvassing the building and seized some evidence, believed to be undergarments lying near the door of the building. They are also looking for more video to determine if Luong was pushed, somehow fell by accident, or jumped off the balcony.

Peter Dykstra, the vice president of Medix College, where Luong was in school until this past June says her classmates gathered at the school today to support one another.

“I’m sure she’ll be remembered fondly, she was a big part of our class, and our school, and she’ll always be one of our family and alumni,” said Dykstra.

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Kate Croft, a community worker at the Dovercourt Salvation Army, knew Luong from the kitchen where she cooked for the drop in lunches. Croft was saddened to learn she had died in such a tragic situation.

“She seemed like a really good person and i’m kind of heartbroken to hear that,” Croft said.

Police have yet to lay any charges as they try to piece together the final tragic minutes of Mimi Luong’s life.