Police say a 3-year-old boy who fell out of a fifth-story apartment window in Brooklyn on Tuesday night miraculously lived.
At 8:40 p.m., the child was playing with a window air conditioner when he fell from the back of an apartment building on E. 21st St. near Church Ave. in Flatbush while playing with it.
Chief of the building, Javier Cornejo, said he rushed to the apartment on the fifth floor after getting a panicked call from the boy’s parents.
Collins, 41, said, “The baby’s mother said the baby pushed the insulation off the air conditioner.” “The baby fell because the tenant put in the air conditioner without making sure it was safe.”
“He opened the thing and fell out,” he said. “The child was lying on the ground when I got there.” He was on his back. “I didn’t believe it.”
“They took him out on a stretcher.” “He was still breathing,” said a third witness who did not want to be named. “To tell you the truth, I couldn’t look.” “I had to turn away.”
“His dad was with him.” “He was shocked,” the man said.
Police said the child was expected to live after being rushed to Maimonides Medical Center by medics.
“He’s fine,” said a woman who said she was related to the boy. Detectives were seen helping the woman get into a car with another child.
It was Cornejo who said the boy has “special needs.”
“He can’t stay in one place for too long.” “He moves around too much,” he said.
Police said there were no signs of wrongdoing late Tuesday.
