Death of two babies spark NYPD probes
A 2-year-old Brooklyn boy and a 2-month-old Bronx girl died yesterday under mysterious circumstances, prompting a police investigation into each case, cops said.
Jacquil Degraffenreid was unconscious when his mother got home to their Cypress Hills apartment at 4:30 a.m., police said.
She called 911, and an ambulance rushed the little boy to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police sources said detectives were questioning the mother and her boyfriend, who is believed to have been left in charge of the 2-year-old in the two-story brownstone on Shepherd Avenue near Arlington Avenue.
No arrest had been made as of last night, and the cause of death had yet to be determined by the city Medical Examiner’s Office, cops said.
The parents of Angelise Correa called 911 at 11:05 a.m. to report that their 2month-old girl was unconscious in the family’s University Heights home, cops said.
Paramedics rushed to the building on Harrison Avenue near West Burnside Avenue but were too late.
They reported that they found no evident sign of trauma on the baby’s body, but Angelise was officially pronounced dead at Bronx Lebanon Hospital, police said.
Investigators last night were awaiting the results of an autopsy and had not made any arrest.