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Toddler Dies After Plunge From 6th-Floor Window of Brooklyn High-Rise, Police Say

The circumstances surrounding the fall weren't immediately clear, but authorities said the toddler's parents were home at the time

What to Know

  • A toddler has died after falling from a window of a Brooklyn high-rise Monday morning, according to authorities
  • A law enforcement source tell News 4 that the child fell from the sixth floor of a building on Eldert Lane Monday morning
  • The circumstances surrounding the fall weren't immediately clear, but authorities said the toddler's parents were home at the time

A 2-year-old boy has died after somehow plunging from a sixth-floor window of a Brooklyn high-rise Monday, authorities and a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation tell News 4.

Cops responding to a 911 call found little Lareese Williams Jr. unconscious on the pavement outside the Eldert Lane building shortly after 11 a.m. The toddler was pronounced dead at a hospital a short time later.

The circumstances surrounding his fall weren't immediately clear, but police say the toddler's parents were home -- in another room of the apartment -- at the time.

No arrests have been made. The investigation is ongoing. 

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