Student at competitive NYC high school commits suicide after being caught cheating 
 
 By Scott Kaufman 
 
 Sunday, June 1, 2014 12:56 EDT 
 
 A promising student at one of the most competitive public high schools in New York City killed herself after she was caught cheating on a German exam on Thursday. 
 
 According to authorities, 17-year-old Omotayo Adeoye allegedly wrote a suicide note on her German-language exam that read, “I just want to go away forever on the bottom of the river.” 
 
 Adeoye, a student at the Harlem High School for Math, Science and Engineering, was caught using her cellphone by teacher Eva Malikova, who snatched it away from her. A male classmate told the New York Post that Malikova yelled, “Oh, you shouldn’t be cheating! You guys shouldn’t be cheating! You guys are lying to yourselves!” 
 
 “I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” Adeoye allegedly yelled, before scrawling her suicide note on the test and running out of the classroom, never to return. 
 
 The school reported her disappearance at 4:20 p.m., but by that time, authorities believe she had already been dead for almost an hour. 
 
 Adeoye left the classroom, then the school and walked to the edge of the Hudson River at West 165th Street. She placed her school ID on a rock, then jumped in the water. 
 
 Her father told police that his daughter did not know how to swim. 
 
 Several students said that on Friday the teacher who caught her cheating, Eva Malikova, could be heard screaming in anguish, and did not teach any classes. 
 
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 A distraught student left her elite high school in Harlem between classes on Thursday, classmates and witnesses said, and went to Fort Washington Park, along the Hudson River. She laid her phone and wallet on a rock on the bank of the river. She walked into the water and sank beneath the surface. 
 
 The police on Saturday said they were looking for a female who went into the water on Thursday near the park, but did not identify her. As of Saturday evening, search teams had not recovered a body. 
 
 Classmates identified the girl as Omotayo Adeoye, 17, a junior at the High School for Math, Science and Engineering at City College. She left the school after she was confronted by a teacher who believed she was cheating on a test, a close friend and a person briefed on the matter said. 
 
 Miss Adeoye was sitting in the back of a German class during the test when her teacher noticed her using her phone, they said. The teacher confronted Miss Adeoye and took away the device. 
 
 Miss Adeoye “said she was sorry,” said her close friend, Nhia Solari, who was also in the class. “The teacher said she was going to tell the dean that she was cheating,” Miss Solari said. 
 
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 The students shared the next class, too, Miss Solari said, “but I didn’t see her after that.” 
 
 Miss Adeoye was described as an excellent student. She played basketball and soccer. She was one of three students selected last summer for a research fellowship at City College’s Grove School of Engineering. 
 
 On Facebook, her friends left warm messages. 
 
 “You were a very intelligent and funny girl,” Natasha Kowlessar wrote on Facebook. “Whether you were joking about chasing cheetahs, making memes or trolling college pages, you never failed to make those around you laugh.” 
 
 On Saturday a group of three men and two women, who said they knew Miss Adeoye, went to the edge of the river to pay her tribute. They declined to comment or be named. 
 
 Just offshore, a blue-and-white police boat sat anchored much of the afternoon. A smaller, gray police boat traced the shoreline, past picnickers and joggers, from 145th Street to the George Washington Bridge. 
 
 A city parks employee, who declined to give his name, said the scene on Thursday was chaotic, as police officers and firefighters ran after a fisherman who frantically pointed to where he saw Miss Adeoye disappear. 
 
 “This happens a lot here,” he said. Fishermen in the park on Saturday said they had seen the girl place her belongings on the rock, then walk into the water wearing all her clothes. 
 
 Fabio Martinez, 71, a fisherman, said he tried to stop her. 
 
 “I said, ‘Come here, come here, don’t go to the water,’ ” he said. “She was just crying, crying all the time.” ||||| May 31, 2014 11:10 PM 
 
 NEW YORK(CBSNewYork) — A horrifying scene unfolded at the Hudson River Greenway near 165th Street on Thursday afternoon. 
 
 It involved Omotayo Adeoye, a student at the High School for Math, Science and Engineering at City College in Harlem. 
 
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 As 1010 WINS’ Roger Stern reported, the teen began handing her clothes to bystanders, left her identification on a rock, and began wading into the Hudson River. 
 
 Adeoye, of the Bronx, was caught using her cell phone during a test at school, CBS 2 reported. 
 
 A classmate said the teacher yelled at Adeoye, who then apologized. 
 
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 WCBS 880's Ginny Kosola reports. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Investigators said she then wrote a suicide note and asked to go to the bathroom. 
 
 But instead, she walked to the Hudson River’s edge at West 165th Street and jumped in, CBS 2 reported. 
 
 Witnesses pleaded with the teen to come out of the water. She did not, and eventually disappeared, Stern reported. 
 
 “She’s a very bright young lady who has a lot of hopes, a lot of vision in life. She wanted to become a medical doctor,” said family friend Godspower Izghe. 
 
 The Department of Education is launching an investigation into the incident. 
 
 The schools chancellor is promising a new look at student mental health awareness. 
 
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