Obituaries
Williamsburg 5-Year-Old Takes Fatal Fall From Balcony
Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish community was in mourning Wednesday night.
- Photo via @NYScanner/Twitter
SOUTH WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN — Shimon Meisels, a 5-year-old Orthodox Jewish child who lived at 200 Wallabout St. near the north end of Bed-Stuy, died Thursday night after falling from his family's 5th-floor balcony around 9 p.m., according to the NYPD.
(The Jewish news site JP Updates, however, reported the child's name as Shimon Yisroel Meizlish.)
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Right after the child fell, paramedics with the Orthodox neighborhood's private ambulance service tried to give him CPR, the news site reported.
When that didn't work, he was rushed to Brooklyn Hospital in Fort Greene, police said — where he was pronounced dead.
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WILLIAMBURG: TRAGEDY: 5 year old boy passes away after falling from 5th floor porch on Wallabout St near Lee Ave. pic.twitter.com/ApcTO6ugXw
— KolHaolam (@KolHaolam) June 2, 2016
Brooklyn: Lee Ave & Wallabout St, child fell down from a porch from the 5th floor was pronounced DOA. pic.twitter.com/rx1Vs0PA6E
— NYC Scanner (@NYScanner) June 2, 2016
Wallabout Street, Williamsburg Brooklyn: Cops stand on the balcony of a 5th floor apartment where a 5 year old child fell and died tonight. Hasidic community gathering in neighborhood. @fox5ny #nyc #tragedy #brooklyn
A photo posted by Jennifer Lahmers (@jennlahmers) on Jun 1, 2016 at 6:31pm PDT
FYI, boy who fell in Williamsburg Shimon Meisles, mother passed away last year of illness. @NBCNewYork @CBSNewYork @NY1 @ABC7NY @AP @fox5ny
— Isaac Abraham (@abr601) June 2, 2016
The apartments at 200 Wallabout have relatively tall fencing on their balconies. It wasn't immediately clear how little Shimon toppled over his balcony's fence.
"The investigation is ongoing,"Â the NYPD said in a statement sent to Patch.
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