A woman who plunged to her death from a seventh floor apartment was seen clinging to a balcony moments before by horrified witnesses.
Emergency services were called to a unit block on River Road in Parramatta at about 1.40am on Thursday.
Officers arrived at the scene and discovered the woman, believed to be aged 39, on the street with critical injuries.
Despite efforts to revive the woman, she was pronounced dead at the scene. She is yet to be formally identified.
NSW Police said a 40-year-old man had been arrested.
Detective Superintendent Barry Vincent, Commander Parramatta Police Area Command, revealed that the man had an AVO taken out against the victim.
It also emerged that a triple-0 call was made from the apartment at 11.45pm where police could hear ‘raised voices’ in the background.
Police rang back and eventually spoke to a male at the property who revealed his name and location, with officers saying they would attend the apartment.
Forensics are seen at the balcony crime scene in Parramatta, western Sydney, where a woman is believed to have fallen to her death during the early hours of Thursday
What appeared to be a blood stain could be seen in the cordoned off crime scene
The woman, believed to be 39-years-old, died at the scene after police were called at 1.40am
Detectives were seen arriving at the unit block on River Road on Thursday morning
However, they did not make it there before the 1.40am triple-0 call.
‘Shortly before 1.40am police received calls from a neighbour at unit block River Road following reports of a female person hanging from a balcony,’ Superintendent Vincent added.
‘That call was received at 1.40am and at 1.41am our officers responded to that scene whereupon they found a woman in the driveway of a unit block and they immediately commenced CPR. Despite their best efforts, the woman died at the scene.’
Superintendent Vincent revealed that there had been ‘previous interactions’ with the police and the couple in question.
Sai Pamula, who lives in the building, said he heard a ‘loud smashing noise’ and rushed down to the street where he saw two men and the woman.
‘Her partner was not panicked, he was calm and just kept saying ‘she is not breathing, she is not breathing’,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.
He asked the other man to call the police. They came and did CPR.’
Mr Pamula said he’d been told that the couple were allegedly arguing in the street earlier that evening.
Police were seen stopping and interviewing residents as they left the underground parking
The apartment tower on River Road, Parramatta, is just metres from a Light Rail station
A resident is seen peering out the window of his unit as emergency services arrived
Residents awoke on Thursday to find their apartment tower surrounded by police
‘People tried to intervene but he was just not listening to them,’ he added.
Uniformed officers were also seen canvassing residents as they left and arrived at the apartment tower on Thursday.
A neighbour who lives six floors above the balcony crime scene heard a ‘piercing’ scream at 12.47am.
‘I was half asleep watching TV in our sitting room and I heard a distinctive female scream,’ he said.
‘I immediately rang my partner, who was in the other room, to ask if it was her.’
The man dismissed the noise and went to bed but understood the gravity of the situation when greeted by officers cordoning off the street later that morning.
‘I think she (the victim) landed in the flower bed,’ he said.
‘It’s so awful. The innocence of the building is totally gone.’
Anyone with information about the incident is being urged to contact Crime Stoppers.
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