Three youngsters discovered lifeless on New York’s Coney Island seaside, mom questioned By Reuters

(Reuters) – Two small women and a boy died on Monday after they had been discovered unconscious early Monday morning on Brooklyn’s Coney Island seaside, the place New York Metropolis detectives took the youngsters’s mom in for questioning, police stated.

Officers found a 4-year-old lady, a 7-year-old boy and a 3-month-old lady close to the water’s edge on the seaside, identified for its boardwalk and large Ferris wheel.

At about 1:30 a.m. EDT (0530 GMT), police responded to a name to a Brooklyn condo from a involved member of the family who stated {that a} relative may need harmed her three babies, Police Chief Kenneth Corey stated.

On the constructing, police met one of many youngsters’s father, who expressed comparable issues, Corey stated throughout a information convention on Coney Island.

“He stated he believed the lady and kids the place on the boardwalk right here,” Corey stated.

Officers looking the world discovered the youngsters’s 30-year-old mom, who was barefoot and soaking moist. She was accompanied by different members of the family, however not the youngsters, Corey stated.

“The search now intensified … aviation models, harbor models and extra canvasses of the shoreline,” he stated.

At about 4:45 a.m. (0845 GMT), officers found the youngsters unconscious on the seaside and rushed them to the hospital the place they had been pronounced lifeless. The mom was then taken to a police station the place she was being questioned by detectives, Corey stated.

“To this point, she has not stated something,” he stated.