A 6-month-old girl died after being thrown from a sixth-floor window in the Bronx on Thursday, moments after witnesses saw someone dangling the child outside the window, the authorities said.
New York City police and fire officials said they were still trying to piece together precisely what occurred. They said police officers and emergency medical workers responded to 911 calls from an apartment building at 2200 Tiebout Avenue around 2 p.m., reporting that the child, Junilah Lawrence, had been seriously injured.
During at least one of the calls, a city official said, dispatchers said they could hear someone in the background imploring: “Don’t throw the baby. Don’t throw the baby.”
“People heard this,” the official said. “People in the building heard this.”
Junilah was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in critical condition, a Fire Department spokesman said. She was pronounced dead there a short time later, the police said.
The police said that officers had taken the child’s mother, Tenisha N. Fearon, into custody in the immediate aftermath. She was taken to Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center for psychiatric evaluation. The police said Ms. Fearon’s three other children were in an apartment on the sixth floor, possibly with another parent, though the circumstances were not immediately clear. Those children were a boy, 10, and two girls, ages 8 and 4, officials said.
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