2-Year-Old Boy Falls DEAD from NY Apartment Window

A 2-year-old boy falls dead after crawling out of his family's Bronx apartment window in New York Sunday, the Associated Press reported.

Authorities said Naydven Santos was in the kitchen of their New York Gerard Ave. dwelling at about 4:20 a.m. when he climbed onto a chair, reached out the window and tumbled down.

"His parents went out last night and left him with the grandma," neighbor and acquaintance Jimmy Cruz, told NY Daily News. "It was the middle of the night and she had put him to sleep. It's so sad. He was a baby. He was a little angel."

The toddler's grandmother - who lived in the same unit with the boy and his parents - was sleeping in another room when he dove from the fifth-floor window and landed on the roof of the building's south entrance, according to the police.

He was reportedly unconscious and unresponsive when authorities arrived, and was rushed by paramedics to Lincoln Hospital where he was later pronounced dead due to severe injuries.

A spokesman for the New York police called the incident - where the 2-year-old boy falls dead from the apartment - an "unfortunate accident." He added that Naydven lived in the apartment building just about four blocks from Yankee Stadium.

"He was a very happy kid and smart, too. He was very smart for a 2-year-old. You'd always see him walking around the neighborhood holding his dad's hand. And he always had a basketball in his hands," neighbor Eric Phillip, 33, said of the 2-year-old boy who fell to death from the New York apartment.

Around 5 p.m. Sunday, the rest of Naydven's family reportedly returned to the apartment; they were inconsolable.

"The family is very upset right now," said the boy's uncle, as he entered the unit.