4-year-old boy dies after falling from 4th-floor window in East Flatbush, Brooklyn
NEW YORK -- A child died Monday afternoon after police say he fell out of the window of a residential building in East Flatbush.
Police said the 4-year-old fell out of the fourth-floor window at 3301 Farragut Road near the corner of New York Avenue at around 3 p.m. The scene was taped off as police continued their investigation.
Officials said the child was rushed to NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County, where he was pronounced dead after sustaining serious head injuries.
Neighbors want to know how the tragedy could have happened.
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Police said the little boy fell from the window overlooking an alleyway.
"It just happened the spur of the moment," neighbor Nashawna Harvey said.
Neighbors ran to the scene and tried to help the child, who was bleeding on the concrete.
"And then I saw them bring the boy out and sat him down on the ground and was pumping on his chest," a neighbor said.
Witnesses say when police got there, an officer scooped the boy up and ran him down the block to an ambulance.
"It was a whole bunch of strangers trying to get him where he needed to be," a tearful Haroey said.
It was too late.
"You see the child, wasn't no life in him. That's when I was like oh my God," a neighbor said.
Some of the windows in the buildings have guards, which are required in city apartments where children under 10 live. Police are investigating if the window in question had one.
"The maintenance people was looking at the window trying to figure out how he came out the window and it was bad, just bad," Haroey said.
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This is at least the sixth child that CBS New York has reported on falling out of a window in New York City so far this year.
"Like, how is that possible?" Haroey said.
The apartment building has 18 open violations with the city, but none relating to window guards.
A spokesman for the building's landlord, Pinnacle Group, said its records show window guards were installed.