Police investigating fatal fall of 2-year-old from Bronx window

CONCOURSE VILLAGE (WABC) -- Police are investigating the fatal fall of a 2-year-old boy from a Bronx window early Sunday morning.

A 911 call came through at 4:21 a.m. after the toddler fell from a fifth floor window and landed on the rooftop of the apartment building's East 153rd Street entrance-way.

Sources say you can see where the child physically moved a pot underneath at kitchen window to look out of the window where he fell to search for his parents in the iddle of the night. The blanket he slept with every night was hanging from the building.

"I saw the baby completely covered in blood on his face, his eyes were open, and the mother was just telling the family to relax because he was breathing," said eyewitness Wanda Velez.

Another eyewitness, Raquel Lora said she heard people screaming and running out of the apartment.

"I went out of the apartment, I tried to see what was going on," Lora said, "I saw the father with the baby crying, 'oh my son, my son!' - the grandmother she grabbed on to me and just had a blank look on her face."

Eventually the grandmother made it to the front of the building where she passed out. She attempted to cover her face as she returned home. Friends say the toddler was in her care when the accident happened. They say when the parents got home, their son wasn't in his bed, so they started looking for him, and then realized he had fallen out of the window.

Eyewitness News is told the father broke through a second floor window with his bare hands, jumped down the the landing, and handed off the child to his mother through another window.

The entrance of the building is still closed off as police wrap up the investigation.