The 'crushed' parents of a Fordham student who plunged to her death inside a clock tower on Sunday rushed to be by her side before she was pronounce dead.
Sydney Monfries, 22, fell between a gap in the stairs inside the clock tower in the early hours of Sunday morning. She plunged 40ft and sustained fatal injuries to her head.
The journalism student and her friends had broken into the off-limits structure because they saw it as a 'rite of passage' as seniors and wanted to get photographs for their Instagram pages, according to their peers.
Sydney uploaded a video to Snapchat moments before she died from inside, captioning it 'bell tower'.
After she fell, she was rushed to Saint Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx.
Her parents, Wayne and Susan Monfries, went straight there and were with her in her final moments, according to a family friend.
Sydney Monfries is shown with her parents, Susan and Wayne, and her sister, Caitlyn. The student's parents rushed to be by her side after she fell 40ft inside a clock tower on Fordham University campus in the early hours of Sunday and were with her when she died in hospital
Sydney, shown more recently, had broken into the clock tower with friends to take photographs and complete what they considered a rite of passage before graduating next month, students said
It is unclear if the parents, who live in Portland, Oregon, flew from there or if they were already on the east coast.
David Barfield, a long-term family friend who
