Derrick Munoz, an Amityville (N.Y.) High School student, is expected to recover from head injuries he sustained when a woman leaped to her death and landed on him at a mall, Newsday said.

Derrick, 17, was on the first floor of the Queens Center Mall in Elmhurst on Wednesday when the 56-year-old woman landed on him after jumping from a third-floor balcony, Munoz's family told WPIX/Channel 11. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

"He was sitting there minding his own business," Derrick's father, Ruben Munoz, told WPIX. "It was pretty shocking."

Witnesses told the television station that the unidentified woman appeared to argue with other people, believed to be her relatives, before taking off her shoes and jacket and dropping her purse. She then dangled from a balcony railing and let go, witnesses said.