A 2-year-old New Jersey boy is dead after what authorities suspect was a fatal fall from a 20th floor apartment window.<\/p>\n
Newark cops received a call about an injured toddler just before 7 a.m. on Saturday, according to an Essex County Prosecutor\u2019s Office source.<\/p>\n
The police arrived at the Elizabeth Towers high-rise apartment building on Elizabeth Avenue to find the boy unresponsive.<\/p>\n
The toddler was dead by the time police arrived at the scene. Fox 5 New York<\/p>\n
The child, who has not been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
The Essex County Prosecutor\u2019s Office is handling the investigation. Fox 5 New York<\/p>\n
The prosecutor\u2019s office is investigating what led up to Saturday\u2019s tragedy.<\/p>\n
However, authorities believe the boy\u2019s death was accidental.<\/p>\n
FOX 5 video showed a window wide open on the 20th floor. Fox 5 New York<\/p>\n
Those with information that could be useful to investigators are asked to contact the Essex County Prosecutor\u2019s Office Tips Line at 1-877-TIPS-4EC or 1-877-847-7432.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 2-year-old New Jersey boy is dead after what authorities suspect was a fatal fall from a 20th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6722,4207,57,1066,9,11,10,7607,5375,1843,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-40956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-apartments","9":"tag-children","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-jersey","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-newark","16":"tag-toddlers","17":"tag-tragedy","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40956","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=40956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}