A 15-month-old child has died and his mother is in police custody.<\/p>\n
The incident happened inside a home on 157th Street in the Jamaica section of Queens on Monday, around 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
“The first scream was the man for sure and it was a very loud, aggressive scream and the second one I heard sounded like a child, a child screaming in fear,” neighbor Fateemah Akter said.<\/p>\n
Police responded to a 911 call of an assault.<\/p>\n
Responding officers found 15-month-old Charlie Ramraykha unconscious and unresponsive, and his 28-year-old mother with slash wounds to her wrists.<\/p>\n
EMS took the child and woman to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where the boy was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
The mother was listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n
“A young child, it’s just unfathomable. I’m a single mom of three that just moved here in September and this is unfathomable,” another neighbor said.<\/p>\n
Officials said the mother had what appeared to be self-inflicted slash wounds to her wrists.<\/p>\n
“I think I’ve seen her. She’s usually pretty quiet. She’ll speak but other than that, I don’t know her personally,” a neighbor said.<\/p>\n
A relative says the boy who died was her brother-in-law’s son and is not sure how the mother is doing.<\/p>\n
Few details about what happened were released, but officials say the child’s mother is a suspect and is in custody.<\/p>\n
Police said it’s not yet clear how the baby died.<\/p>\n
The boy was covered in his mother’s blood, leading first responders to initially think he was slashed or stabbed.<\/p>\n
But there was no blunt force trauma to his body, and the medical examiner will determine the cause of his death.<\/p>\n
A next-door neighbor said he heard a baby crying earlier in the day.<\/p>\n
“We just heard the crying, you know the noise. We just heard it in the morning,” Miah Mannan said.<\/p>\n
Police recovered a blade that appeared to be a box cutter at the scene along with pills, officials said.<\/p>\n
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