NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Dramatic new video captured the nerve-racking moment NYPD officers came to the rescue of a 4-year-old boy who plummeted from a sixth-story window of a Bronx NYCHA apartment building on Tuesday.
The terrifying fall happened around 12:45 p.m. at the Patterson Houses in the Mott Haven section on East 143rd Street, police said.
Body-camera footage released by the NYPD on Wednesday showed officers and a bystander tending to the boy, who was lying in a grassy area on the ground.
"When a 4-year-old boy fell out of a 6th-floor window in the Bronx yesterday, residents tending to the boy immediately called 9-1-1," the NYPD said in a tweet. "In a coordinated effort by the residents, EMS, and officers from @NYPDPSA7, the boy was rushed to the hospital & is currently in stable condition."
He was rushed to Lincoln Hospital and is expected to survive.
ABC 7 reports that he was alert, but crying and appeared to have sustained a leg injury during the incident.
"It's a miracle that he fell in this grass and it was damp," one witness told 1010 WINS' Roger Stern. "Cause that boy was still moving and he was fighting. He was fighting the police when they were running."
The window has an air conditioner so there was no guardrail. It appears the child fell through one of the corrugated side panels.
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