Police Investigating Death Of Brooklyn 12-Year-Old: NYPD

BROOKLYN, NY — Police are investigating the death of a 12-year-old boy who died after complaining of head pain in Brooklyn last week.

Emergency responders were called to the boy's Cortelyou Road home in Flatbush around 3:22 p.m. on Friday to find him complaining of pain to his head, according to police. He was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Police said there were no obvious signs of trauma and that the Medical Examiner will determine the boy's cause of death.

Family told the New York Post that the boy, Romy Vilsaint, had been hurt in an attack at school.

“He got jumped by two kids on Wednesday. And he got hit in the head on Thursday. There were two different attacks at school,” his cousin Roodwiny Exantus told The Post.

Romy told his cousin that he had a bad headache. Friday, he vomited and his mother had to help him get into the shower, Exantus said.

"By 1 p.m. he looked bad, bad, bad,” he told the Post.