BY ERICA PEARSON AND WIL CRUZ
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Friday, July 9th 2010, 4:00 AM
A man who tried to scale down the side of a Harlem building with with shoelaces and a belt plunged 11 floors to his death Thursday morning.
Locked out of his girlfriend's 13th-floor apartment at W. 112th St., Steven Wright headed to the roof around 5:30 a.m.
Wright tied the laces and the belt to a pipe and tried to inch his way to her top-floor window, then plummeted onto a second-floor patio roof.
"I heard a boom!" said Alexander Bridgett, 45, whose window overlooks the patio. "And then I looked out to see a dead body."
Neighbors said Wright had a fight with girlfriend Lanecca Austin, 31, before the fatal plunge.
Austin told the Daily News she was asleep with the television on and the volume up high, and only found out Wright had fallen when cops knocked on her door.
Police don't suspect foul play.
"It's a bad thing that happened to a good dude," said one building resident.
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