Baby’s Death Ruled Homicide in Bronx

The ME's office ruled an infant's death in the Throggs Neck Houses a homicide. -File Photo

By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

October 4, 2023

BRONX - An infant discovered dead inside an apartment in the Throggs Neck Houses last year has been ruled a homicide by the city’s Medical Examiner. 

At around 9 pm on April 3, 2022, officers from the 45th Precint and PSA#8 responded to a call for a child in distress at 515 Calhoun Avenue in the Throggs Neck Houses. Cops found 6-month-old Dalilah Crespo unconscious and unreponsive in the bathtub. 

EMS transported the infant to Jacobi Medical Center where she was pronounced deceased. 

The Medial Examiner’s Office today announced that the child’s death was a homicide but the have not determined a cause of death. 

No arrests have been made at this time.  

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips. 

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