A SECOND woman has plunged to her death in Niagara Falls just days after a mom jumped over the safety railing with her two children.
Police are now searching for four bodies in the Niagara River following a devastating week for the New York state park.
Tourists walking on Luna Island near Niagara Falls, where Chianti Means and her two kids intentionally went over the railing[/caption]
Chianti Means, 33, who cops said pushed her kids into the waterfall before jumping in herself[/caption]
Chianti Means, who was also known as Diamond Scott[/caption]
On Wednesday afternoon, several witnesses reported seeing a woman who intentionally got in the water at Goat Island.
Goat Island is just above Horseshoe Falls, which is the biggest of Niagara Falls’ three waterfalls.
New York State Police still haven’t located the woman, who hasn’t been named, after searching the area with drones and foot searches.
“An immediate search of the area commenced using Park Police drone, foot searches of the gorge, and visual searches from overlooks,” state police said in a statement to NBC affiliate WGRZ.
Park police then contacted New York State Police Aviation for their help searching the lower part of Niagara River. The search is ongoing.
The U.S. Sun reached out to the police for more information.
The mystery woman being swept away in the water comes a week after a young mom jumped in with her young kids.
Chianti Means, 33, and her two kids, nine-year-old Roman Rossman and five-month-old Mecca Means, are presumed dead after the horrific scene unfolded on October 28.
New York State Police said the family didn’t just “stumble in” the rushing water.
Means pushed her two children over the safety railing at Luna Island, a vista point, before jumping in the water herself, police said.
James O’Callaghan, staff from the State Park Police, said footage appeared to show the mom wasn’t chasing her kids when they fell to their deaths.
“We believe this was intentional,” O’Callaghan said.
“Not going to get into what the witnesses saw because it’s still an active case, but it is alarming what they told us.”
Cops began searching for the family in the monstrous falls that night.
Who was Chianti Means?
Chianti Means was a 33-year-old mom from Buffalo, New York.
She was a domestic violence counselor, according to LinkedIn.
In the weeks before her death, Chianti posted heartbreaking messages about failed relationships on her Facebook account, which was under the name Diamond Scott.
Chianti was experiencing postpartum depression in her final days, her friends and family said after her death.
On October 28, Chianti went to Luna Island, a small viewpoint at Niagara Falls, with her two kids, nine-year-old Roman Rossman, and five-month-old Mecca Means.
Police said she pushed Roman and Mecca over the safety railing before going into the rushing water herself.
Cops were called to Luna Island around 9 pm on Monday, near the Cave of the Winds.
The search for Chianti and her two kids has lasted for over two weeks, but their bodies have yet to be found.
The search is still ongoing for the family’s bodies, despite all three being declared dead.
Means was a domestic violence counselor from Niagara Falls, which is just outside of Buffalo, New York.
Before her death, she posted worrying messages to her Facebook page, where she went by Diamond Scott.
“You have to hold on to the ones you love,” she wrote in a now-eerie post.
“Never know when you might lose them.”
FRIEND SPEAKS OUT
Means’ friend, Amanda Roberts-Conrad, told The U.S. Sun the mom was suffering from postpartum depression.
“It makes me so sad to see people paint her a type of way,” she said about people criticizing the mom online.
“We need to bring more awareness to postpartum depression and possibly more safety down by the falls.
“This is a common occurrence in my city. It’s gut-wrenching.
“It really is a terrible loss.”
The U.S. Sun has reached out to the Niagara Falls State Park for comment.
TOURIST SPOT
Dozens of suicides are reported at the iconic waterfalls each year, where 3,610 tons of water rage every second.
Many people who have jumped to their deaths or fallen into the falls have never been recovered from the roaring water.
Police didn’t respond when approached for an update on the searches for the four people in the rapids.
Despite the recent horrors, Niagara Falls remains a popular tourist spot as the oldest state park in the US.
The beloved destination is known for the beauty of its three waterfalls, which visitors can enjoy from boat rides and observation towers.
On Thursday morning, 28 people were hospitalized after a tour bus heading to Niagara Falls crashed on the way to the falls.
The bus from New York City flipped over on a highway near Rochester in upstate New York.
A tour bus flipped over on its side in Chili, New York[/caption]
First responders arive to the scene of the bus crash on Thursday morning[/caption]
The Flixbus on its side, which saw 28 people hospitalized[/caption]
One person was critically injured in the accident.
Cops found the giant vehicle rolled on its side next to the road as passengers walked along the highway.
“You train for these things, but when you pull up and actually see the bus turned on its side and people literally walking in a state of confusion on the side of the road, trying to figure out what’s happened to them as they were just thrown about inside a bus, it was surreal,” Monroe County Sheriff Todd Baxter said, according to ABC affiliate WHAM.
“It was things you train for but things you don’t expect to see in your life.
It’s unclear what caused the crash.
Chianti Means’ eerie Facebook post under the name Diamond Scott[/caption]
Tourists looking out at Niagara Falls[/caption]
