3rd baby in 3 months dies after being tossed from NYC window

NEW YORK (AP) — A 6-month-old girl died today after being tossed from a sixth-floor window of an apartment building, witnesses and police said, the third child killed that way in the city in three months.

The New York Police Department said a 27-year-old woman believed to be the infant's mother was in the Bronx apartment with four children at the time. The three other children – a 10-year-old boy, an 8-year-old girl and a 3-year-old girl – were taken to a hospital but were not injured, police said.

The woman was taken from the home in the Fordham Heights neighborhood to a hospital for an evaluation. No charges have been filed. Police identified her as Tenisha Fearon.

The fire department said a call came in about a child outside a window shortly before 2 p.m. at the building on Tiebout Street.

The baby was taken to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said.

A witness told WABC that Fearon had been dangling the child outside of the window.

"And then that's when the neighbors started screaming, 'No, no, no, no!'" Lizette Rodriguez said. "They were yelling at her, 'Don't do it! Think about it.'"

Rodriguez said the woman said, "'I'm going to throw the baby out the window,' and the woman was screaming, 'We're all gonna die!' And that's when I figured, OK, this is time to call 911." She said she heard the baby hit the ground while she was dialing.