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<\/p>\nThe Brief<\/p>\n
A Bronx woman is dead and a baby girl is in critical condition after falling from a 15th-floor apartment balcony on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The NYPD said the 23-year-old woman and baby were found on the pavement on Olinville Avenue in the Allerton section just before 4 a.m.<\/p>\n
Sources tell FOX 5 NY that the woman and baby were allegedly pushed and that police were searching for a person of interest.<\/p>\n
NEW YORK – A Bronx woman is dead and her 5-month-old baby girl is in critical condition after they fell from an apartment balcony Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
The NYPD said the 23-year-old mother and baby were found on the pavement outside 2550 Olinville Avenue in the Allerton section just before 4 a.m.<\/p>\n
Officers made the horrific discovery in the back of the building after residents called 911 to report they heard people shouting.<\/p>\n
The woman was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital and her daughter, according to sources, was transferred to a high-level infant trauma center on Long Island.<\/p>\n
What they’re saying<\/p>\n
Sources told FOX 5 NY that the woman and baby were allegedly pushed from their 15th-floor balcony and that police were searching for a person of interest, a man in his 30s, who may have been inside the apartment at the time.<\/p>\n
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Police said the injuries were “consistent with a fall from an elevated position,” but the circumstances remained under investigation.<\/p>\n
What we don’t know<\/p>\n
The relationship of the mother and daughter to the person of interest was not immediately known.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
This story was written with statements and details from the NYPD’s Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Public Information (DCPI), and FOX 5 NY sources close to the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A Bronx woman is dead and a baby girl is in critical condition after falling from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-366088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366088","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=366088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}