The 2-year-old child fell just before noon on Monday as the parents were home, inside another room of the East New York apartment before tragedy struck. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.
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.
