Crime & Safety
Baby Found Dead Inside Jackson Heights Home: NYPD
The four-month-old girl was found dead on Monday with internal injuries that doctors later deemed "questionable,' police say.
JACKSON HEIGHTS, QUEENS -- Authorities are investigating the death of a four-month-old baby in Queens on Monday after doctors said she had "questionable" internal injuries.
Little Zeyrep Kocaman was found unconscious inside her family's Jackson Heights home on 35th Avenue after her parents called 911 on their non-responsive infant just before 11 a.m., police told Patch.
Medics rushed the tiny tot to Elmhurst Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
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Though cops responding to the scene saw no obvious signs of trauma on the little girl, doctors later found "some internal injuries that are questionable," an NYPD spokesman said.
The NYC Medical Examiner has yet to determine the girl's official cause of death and the investigation is ongoing, cops said.
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