A 23-year-old woman died and an 8-month-old baby girl was critically injured after police said they were pushed from a 15th-story balcony at 2550 Olinville Ave. early Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Police identified the woman as Nathaly Ramirez. Officers were called just after 3:30 a.m. and rushed Ramirez and the baby to Jacobi Medical Center, where Ramirez was pronounced dead, according to police. The baby remained in critical condition.<\/p>\n
Neighbors in and around the building said they heard a commotion around 3 a.m. but did not know what had happened until later. Items including a diaper, baby clothes and a stuffed animal were seen near the scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout 3:00 I heard a man yelling \u2018Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up!\u2019 Really, really loud and strong,\u201d neighbor Stan Garelik said. \u201cIt could have come from anywhere. I\u2019m at the point now for 40 years, a noise doesn\u2019t mean anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another witness described hearing dogs barking and a scream before seeing something fall.<\/p>\n
\u201cI heard a bunch of noise. Dogs barking, yelling, ‘Don’t do this, please look at my baby\u2019s face.\u2019 She\u2019s scared and then there was just like a scream. And I saw something fall and I heard a thump. And I\u2019m just saying to myself I know that isn\u2019t what I just seen,” the witness said.<\/p>\n
Detectives were seen going in and out of the building throughout the day. Police have not confirmed additional circumstances surrounding Ramirez\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
Neighbors, including some who said they did not know Ramirez, placed candles at a memorial outside the building and said they were praying for the baby\u2019s recovery.\n<\/p>\n
\nStephanie McGraw with W.A.R.M., a domestic violence awareness and support group, was among those honoring Ramirez and the baby.\n<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe are standing here in front of this building because there is a mother who lost her life and her infant child who is clinging to life,\u201d McGraw said. \u201cSo at this moment, we stand with the neighbors in support and solidarity of this amazing, beautiful, talented woman who\u2019s no longer with us.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\nA neighbor questioned how anyone could harm a woman and baby.\n<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWhy? Why would somebody do this to an innocent baby and an innocent woman?\u201d the neighbor said. \u201cWalk away. Whatever the situation is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 23-year-old woman died and an 8-month-old baby girl was critically injured after police said they were pushed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[25,1084,128,9,24,12,63,298,129,131,130,27,296,142,200],"class_list":["post-366758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-top-stories","tag-app-traffic-transit","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-samantha-liebman","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories","tag-traffic-and-transit","tag-transit","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366758","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=366758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}