Officers found the injured toddler lying on scaffolding on the 3rd floor after a 911 call at 11:09 am. The boy was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. “We believe the child got out of a window, but exactly how that happened is under investigation at this time,” a police spokesman told The Associated Press. The apartment is located in the Taino Towers housing complex in Harlem. New York law requires owners of buildings with three or more apartments to install window guards if a child age 10 or younger lives there or if a tenant or tenant requests it. It is unclear if window guards were installed in that particular apartment. The spokesman said the child’s death was under “active investigation” and police were speaking to two people who were inside the apartment when the boy fell.
