5-year-old twins found dead in the Bronx
THE BRONX - Hearts have been shattered in the Bronx after two young children were found dead Monday morning.
According to the NYPD, officers found 5-year-old twins, a girl and a boy, unresponsive inside an apartment on the 200 block of East 175th Street in Mount Hope.
EMS pronounced both children dead at the scene.
The city's medical examiner is working to determine the exact cause of the children's death.
Officials said they are treating this as a crime scene, even though right now there's no indication of foul play.
The mother was in the apartment when police arrived, police said. The mother is now in the hospital for treatment and is not injured, but emotionally distraught.
Neighbors said that the family seemed very friendly and had fond memories of the two children.
Two young children were found dead in the Mount Hope section of the Bronx, the NYPD said.
The children’s father is at the 46th police precinct being questioned by investigators, where they say he’s being cooperative.
"When you go up, and you see two 5-year-olds lying on the floor unresponsive and cold at this time of the year, you could imagine what the family is going through, what the mother is going through and the father. At the time, the father wasn’t home, so what’s going on through his mind. We have to do our job at the crime scene. We do feel for everybody in the community as well as the family," NYPD Assistant chief Benjamin Gurley said.
FOX 5 NY learned the children were pulled from school last week after they were sick and police are holding out hope that no one is at fault, while struggling to process this scene.
The cause of death is unknown. An investigation is ongoing.
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