9:30AM EST: (UPDATE IN EXTENDED STORY) A tragic incident has just occurred in Williamsburg, when a 9-year-old child R”L fell down an elevator shaft, YWN has learned.
Credible sources tell YWN that the child pressed the button at 70 Clymer Street for the elevator, the door opened, and he stepped into the empty shaft – plunging 11 stories.
Hatzolah Paramedics tried to save his life, and he was transported to Brooklyn Hospital in traumatic arrest. Sadly he was R”L pronounced dead a few minutes after arriving at the hospital.
Boruch Dayan Emmes…
UPDATE 1:00PM EST: CBS2 HD reports the following: A 5-year-old boy has died after falling down an elevator shaft, CBS 2 HD has learned.
The incident occurred at 70 Clymer Street in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn just before 9 a.m. Tuesday morning.
Two brothers being babysat by their 14-year-old sister got on the elevator to head to school. But between the 10th and 11th floors the elevator became stuck and the doors began to rattle.
The 8-year-old pressed a button and the doors opened. Then the doors on the 10th floor opened as well. That’s when the 5-year-old victim jumped out of the elevator.
Residents of the Tyler White Housing complex have had problems with the elevator before.
“We have gotten stuck a lot, this is not the first time something like this has happened,” said resident Pessie Gelb.
“They have constant breakdowns that are constantly being complaint about by the tenants but there is just no funding for overhalls,” said Solomon Lieser, President of the Tenants Association.
When the 5-year-old jumped out of the stuck elevator he landed on the partially visible 10th floor, but lost his balance. He then fell back and down the elevator shaft to his death.
“He was a special, special little boy, a good boy, very good hearted. He was very good with my child,” said Gelb.
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May Hashem comfort his mourners among all the mourners of Israel.
how do we rationalize this? Baruch dayan ha-emes.
Boruch Dayan Emmes
Baruch dayan haemes. This is so crazy. Oh how my heart aches for these poor parents. The trauma….
Boruch Dayan Emes.. Nabech!
How very very tragic!!!
Anyone know a name?
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A 5-year-old boy fell 10 stories to his death down an elevator shaft in Brooklyn Tuesday morning.
The boy and his 8-year-old brother were headed to school from their apartment in the Taylor-Wythe Houses in Williamsburg when the elevator got stuck between the 10th and 11th floors, police said.
They were able to open the doors of the stopped car and the younger boy tried to jump down to the 10th floor, but he lost his balance and fell down the shaft, police said.
He was pronounced dead at Brooklyn Hospital.
Neighbors told 1010 WINS’ Terry Sheridan there have been problems with the elevators in that building before.
wcbs880 is reporting that the boy was 5 years old.
Regardless it is a terrible story.
May they have a nechama.
NBC reports as follows:
A 5-year-old child is dead after falling down an elevator shaft in a Brooklyn building, fire officials said.
Earlier reports listed the child as 10-years old.
According to police, the 5-year-old boy and his 8-year-old brother were on their way to school Tuesday morning when they boarded the elevator on the 11th floor of the Taylor-Wythe Houses at 70 Clymer Street in Williamsburg.
The elevator became stuck between the 10th and 11th floors, police said. At some point, the doors began to shutter and then opened near the 10th floor, police said. The 5-year-old attempted to climb out, but fell backward down the shaft, police said.
He fell about 110 feet, police said, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said the parents were not home at the time, but rushed back upon hearing about the accident.
my mother oleho hashlom would say as follows
learn from this to teach the young kids that whenever they open the elevator door the elevator should be there.
oh my what a way to die we need moshiach
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our comment was based on how yeshiva world.com first reported the story.
we still allways have to teach our children safty first at all times
Poor boy! my heart is going out for the family.. Baruch Dyan Haemes
Boruch Dayan Emes, Now they better fix those elevators, no more excuses, raise money to fix them, we don’t need any more tragedies,fix them at once.
http://www.1010wins.com/Boy-Falls-Down-Elevator-Shaft/2815115
בײ די לוי’ האבן מספיד געװען מיט בכיות כ״ק הרהגה״צ גאב״ד ור״מ סאטמאר־װיליאמסבורג שליט״א, און הרה״ג הרב חײם ראובן שעהנברױן שליט״א מנהל רוחני בתלמוד תורה תורה ויראה דרבינו יואל מ׳סאטמאר־װמב״ג, װי ־להבדבחל״ח־ דאס נשמה׳לע ע״ה האט געלערנט, און נאך מספידים
יהי רצון שלא ישמע שוד ושבר בגבולינו, ומחה ה׳ דמעה מעל כל פנים, אמן!
Oh Hashem have mercy on us!!
Oh Hashem reedem us already!!
What a horrible tragedy. But I’m not chapping something. Did one or both boys get killed? The comments and stories are very confusing.
Baruch Dayan HaEmes.
Terrible news….there is nothing else to add.
by the לוי’ there wasen’t a dry eye, specil by the hesped from satmer ruv, and rabbi schonbrum the menahal in satmer cheider