Police: 4-Year-Old In Critical Condition After Falling From Balcony In The Bronx

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A 4-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital Saturday after falling 10 stories from a balcony in the Bronx.

Police say the boy fell from a building on Noble Avenue in the Parkchester section just before 2:30 p.m.

As CBS2’s Kiran Dhillon reports, the circumstances that led to the fall are unclear right now.

Neighbors say they’ve heard the boy may have been on a chair on the balcony before he fell. They also say an off-duty officer rushed in to help.

“There’s an officer lives in the building. He ran down and gave him mouth-to-mouth. The ambulance came, threw him in the ambulance, and hopefully he made it at the hospital,” one neighbor said.

“It’s heartbreaking, you know. Yeah, I got kids myself, and I can only imagine what the family’s going through,” another neighbor said.

Police say this all appears to be an accident.

The boy remains in critical condition.

from CBS New York https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2021/07/24/parkchester-bronx-child-falls-from-balcony/
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