Man, 74, who had an arrest warrant for an attempted homicide case, jumps to ...

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This is the tragic moment a man jumps to his death from a crane in Argentina because he was wanted by police for attempting to kill a former friend.

Witnesses said Julio Alfonso Doniacuo, 74, climbed atop a crane in the Buenos Aires waterfront district of Puerto Madero on Wednesday at about 9am local time. 

Rescuers tried to reason with the suicidal man before he made a sign of the holy cross and stretched his arms out.

Cell phone video footage captured the moment Doniacuo then leaps off the crane and crashed to the ground. 

Doniacuo was pronounced dead at the scene.