Man charged with murder after brother, 4, 'thrown from building'
A 20-year-old man has been charged with murder after telling police he threw his four-year-old brother off the roof of the family’s seven-story apartment building.
Police responding to an emergency call found Shimron Smith unconscious and unresponsive in the courtyard outside his Brooklyn, New York, home in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The little boy was was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the NYPD.
Shimron’s brother Shawn J. Smith, who suffers from schizophrenia, reportedly confessed to officers that he led his little brother to the roof of the Midwood building and pushed him off, according to The New York post.
“I just killed my brother — I took my brother up to the roof and I threw him off,” Smith allegedly told officers.
Smith was charged with second-degree murder, accused of throwing the Shimron off the roof of the seven-story apartment building.
Shimron was the youngest of six children whose family arrived in Brooklyn from Guyana – a country on South America’s North Atlantic coast – less than a year ago.
An investigation is ongoing.
