{"id":82923,"date":"2025-12-28T19:07:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/82923\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T19:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:07:22","slug":"cops-investigate-mysterious-death-of-4-year-old-bronx-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/82923\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops investigate mysterious death of 4-year-old Bronx girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYPD detectives are investigating the mysterious death of a 4-year-old girl who fell unconscious in her Bronx apartment with no apparent marks or injuries on her body, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/12\/24\/nyc-sees-1000-fewer-shooting-victims-in-2025-than-4-years-ago-nypd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">police<\/a> said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Cops were called to the child\u2019s apartment near the corner of Barnes and Adee Aves. in Williamsbridge around 9:15 a.m. Friday, the day after Christmas, after family members found the girl unconscious.<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed the child to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/jacobi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jacobi Medical Center<\/a>, where she was pronounced dead, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors saw the girl\u2019s dad burst out in tears after learning of his daughter\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe father was pacing back and forth and he broke down,\u201d one neighbor, who only wished to be identified as Najee, told the Daily News Saturday. \u201cI asked him if everything was all right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A short time later, the father knocked on Najee\u2019s door, telling her that his daughter was dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just like, \u2018Dang,&#8217;\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m just sad to hear it was a young girl and during the holidays. It\u2019s sad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another neighbor called the child\u2019s death \u201cheartbreaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The girl\u2019s name was not immediately released by police. An autopsy has been scheduled to determine how she died.<\/p>\n<p>The child\u2019s parents declined to comment about her death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou want to put this on the news?\u201d the mom told a reporter. \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with y\u2019all?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors recalled that cops showed up at the child\u2019s apartment about a week earlier, but didn\u2019t know if it was connected to the tot\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>A police source with knowledge of the case said the girl did not appear injured and no wounds were found on her body.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives have interviewed the family, but were awaiting the results of an autopsy before proceeding with their investigation, the source said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYPD detectives are investigating the mysterious death of a 4-year-old girl who fell unconscious in her Bronx apartment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-82923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","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\/82923","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=82923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}