Madison Holleran posted a picture of Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square on Instagram an hour before police say she jumped off a parking garage.
Madison Holleran, a popular 19-year-old track star at UPenn, posted this picture of Philadelphia's famous Rittenhouse Square on Instagram, an hour before police say she jumped to her death from a parking garage on Friday, Jan. 17.
Holleran's father, James Holleran told the New York Post, that his daughter "felt a lot more pressure" at the Ivy League school.
The Post reported that Holleran had shared her suicidal thoughts with her parents in December 2012 and had started seeing a therapist.
James told the Post:
""We knew she needed help. She knew she needed help. She had lost confidence in academics and she also lost confidence in her track abilities."
According to the story, Madison left her parents a note along with gifts for the family at the parking garage from where she jumped to her death.
Holleran jumped off a parking garage in downtown Philadelphia and was pronounced dead at the scene at around 7 p.m. on Friday, according to police. No one else was injured. Police did not indicate the reason for her apparent suicide.
