She had model looks and the chance to turn her life around after becoming a criminal when just a child.
But Shanise Paris-Goff died at the age of 18 when she fell from the 17th floor of a tower block during a police raid.
Moments earlier, officers had arrived to arrest the convicted robber after she had been on the run for nine months.
Shanise Paris-Goff plunged to her death from the 17th
floor of a block of flats in Woolwich on Monday
She had been tracked down to her boyfriend's high-rise flat and is thought to have panicked on seeing the officers.
The teenager scrambled on to a bedroom window ledge where she plunged to her death.
Yesterday it emerged that Shanise, who dubbed herself 'Reckless Shen', had evaded police and probation officers for months.
They were searching for her after she failed to register with her probation officer following her early release from a young offenders' institution in April last year.
Shanise had served nearly two years of a three-year sentence for a series of muggings, attempted robbery and assault. Scotland Yard appealed for help in tracing her last July but it was not until Tuesday that police attempted to arrest her at the flat in Woolwich, South East London.
Miss Paris-Goff, who was also known as Sherise Steabler,
was said to have been released from prison in April last year under
licence
Death: The 17th-storey window from which Shanise plunged
to her death
She was jailed at Croydon Crown Court in May 2009 and released on April 20 last year on licence and subject to a curfew.
The teenager, who also went by the name Shenice and Sherise Steabler, appears to have spent her days posting updates on Facebook about smoking cannabis and moaning about her curfew.
Eight days after her release, she wrote: 'Probation is a lonnnnnnng tome [time]! I'm a criminal get me outta here!'
Then on May 26, she said: '**** dis curfew **** its depresin ma life.' But after breaching the terms of her release by not registering with the Probation Service or turning up to any meetings, her licence was revoked three months later.
After going into hiding, she taunted police on June 17 last year, saying: 'Katch me if yuh kann!'
Friends urged her to change her ways at the beginning of this year, with one asking: 'Where is your life going? Seriously. Think about it.'
But Shanise retorted: 'I hear yuh buh I'm only gonna live once so ima do it my way!!'
Meticulous: Forensic officers scour the grounds for
evidence after Shanise's death
Shanise Paris-Goff plunged to her death from the 17th
floor of a block of flats in Woolwich yesterday
In an bizarre rant posted on New Year's Eve, she had written: '**** the new year! Were all gonna die! Hope yuh lot r ready kah I am!'
On her homepage, she described herself as a beautiful, outgoing girl with a loud mouth, writing: 'I'm Only Gonna Live Once So I Do **** My Way!!
'I've Made A lot Of Mistakes In The Short Period Of Time I've Lived Buh I Say **** It S*** Happens Life Goes Orn!' She added: 'I'm One Ina Million!!'
Last night her parents were said to be too upset to speak about her death but friends and family paid tribute on Facebook.
Her cousin, Krystle Goff wrote: 'Ur at peace now. Make sure yuh party hard up ther. I love you xxx.'
An inquiry into her death will be held by the Independent Police Complaints Commission and the Met Force's Directorate of Professional Standards.
Neighbours told how they heard a woman scream 'Get off me'.
The two plain-clothes officers who went to the one-bedroomed flat will be questioned about her final movements.
Shortly after they arrived, police said Shanise retreated to the bedroom alone, half closing the door behind her.
Seconds later she fell. Her death was witnessed by children on the estate who screamed in horror.
Officers later arrested her boyfriend Mason Okotie, 18, on suspicion of assisting an offender.
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