BROOKLYN, NY. (THECOUNT) — Little Shimron Smith is dead, after being tossed out a Brooklyn window by his 20-year-old brother.
The victim’s 20-year-old brother was taken in police custody after being accused of tossing the boy from the building, possibly from the roof or from a window of the family’s apartment.
Police responded to a 911 call around 3:30 a.m. Saturday on the 2400 block of Nostrand Avenue in Midwood and found the 4-year-old boy unconscious and unresponsive in the courtyard of a building.
Smith was pronounced dead on blunt force trauma consistent with the fall.
The child, identified as Shimron Smith, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. source
An investigation remains ongoing.
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