A 4-year-old boy rushed to the hospital after apparently ingesting drugs at a Brooklyn family shelter has died, police said Wednesday.
The child was rushed out of the Women In Need (WIN) shelter on Glenwood Road near Schenectady Ave. in East Flatbush about 8 a.m. Tuesday.
He died at Maimonides Medical Center several hours later. His name was not immediately released.
Multiple police sources told the Daily News the child is believed to have ingested drugs, possibly fentanyl, at the shelter before becoming critically ill. An autopsy has been scheduled to determine how the child died.
Detectives on Wednesday were questioning the child’s parents but so far no criminal charges have been filed.
A man staying at the family shelter saw medics arriving loading the little boy into a waiting ambulance.
“He wasn’t moving when they brought him out,” the man told The News, asking that he not be named. “It looked like he was going to die.”The horrific apparent overdose came a day after a drug-dealing operator of a Bronx day care was sentenced to 45 years in prison for the death of a toddler exposed to fentanyl and the overdoses of three other children who survived.
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