{"id":267909,"date":"2026-06-15T22:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/267909\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:17:10","slug":"boy-2-found-dead-in-nyc-home-hours-before-girl-2-is-critically-hurt-in-fall-from-window-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/267909\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 2, found dead in NYC home, hours before girl, 2, is critically hurt in fall from window: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 2-year-old boy was found dead inside a Queens home early Monday \u2014 and a 2-year-old girl was left clinging to life hours later when she fell from a second-story Brooklyn window, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first tragic toddler was discovered unconscious and unresponsive inside an Ozone Park residence at 107th Avenue and 88th Street around 1:15 a.m., police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39686355\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/crop-39686298.jpg\" alt=\"A 2-year-old boy was found dead inside a home at 107th Avenue and 88th Street in Ozone Park around 1:15 a.m., police said.\" class=\"wp-image-39686355\"  \/>A 2-year-old boy was found dead inside a home at 107th Avenue and 88th Street in Ozone Park around 1:15 a.m., police said. Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>He was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The boy\u2019s body showed no visible signs of trauma, and the circumstances of his death remain under investigation, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>In an unrelated tragedy several hours later, a 2-year-old Brooklyn girl was critically hurt when she plunged two floors from a window while her mom used the bathroom, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cops responded to a 911 call from the home on East 2nd Street near Ryder Avenue in Midwood around 8 a.m., authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.78027344;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39686299\" width=\"460\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2-year-old-girl-critical-131094350.jpg\" alt=\"A 2-year-old girl was critically hurt when she fell two floors from a Midwood, Brooklyn window while her mom used the bathroom, cops said.\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-39686299\"  \/>A 2-year-old girl was critically hurt when she fell two floors from a Midwood, Brooklyn window while her mom used the bathroom, cops said.\u00a0 Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>She was discovered on the ground with injuries that pointed to a fall from an \u201celevated position,\u201d police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was rushed to Maimonides Medical Center, where she was listed in critical condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No criminality is suspected in the fall, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 2-year-old boy was found dead inside a Queens home early Monday \u2014 and a 2-year-old girl was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,1015,23665,57,9,56,63,65,64,122,5375,58],"class_list":["post-267909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn","tag-deaths","tag-falls","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-queens","tag-toddlers","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}