Medical Examiner Rules Death Of Baby Found In Queens Apartment Courtyard A

Police say he had severe injuries.

A one-month-old baby was found dead Friday around 4 a.m.in the courtyard of a residential building on the corner of 115th street and Myrtle Avenue in Richmond Hill, and a neighbor said she called 911 after hearing a thud in the middle of the night.

The New York Police Department was investigating the circumstances of the death, said spokeswoman Detective Annette Markowski. Rizwan Ahmad, who was born on July 18, was dressed in a blue and white onesie. It’s also not clear whether he was alive in the courtyard before dying.

Six people were taken into custody for questioning, but no charges had been filed by Friday afternoon, police said.

The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide, saying he was killed by “blunt impact of head and torso with skull fractures and lacerations of (the) liver, brain and spleen”.

Five more buildings in the Bronx have tested positive for the bacteria that cause the potentially deadly Legionnaires’ disease, though there is no sign that anyone has grown ill from the new sites, New York City officials said Saturday. “Bad. It’s hard to believe, a baby that little”, said one woman who only gave her name as Eve.

“I couldn’t move. I couldn’t scream”, she said. The mother was holding the husband and the rest of the family left the building expressionless from the scene.

Information on an attorney for Chowdhury was not immediately available.