Death Of Infant In Midtown Hotel Declared Homicide, Police Say

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — The December death of a 4-month-old infant in a Midtown Manhattan hotel has been ruled a homicide, police said.

EMS rushed Dominic Greene, of Delaware, from the Hotel Pennsylvania on Seventh Avenue to NYU Medical Center where he was pronounced dead on Dec. 15, 2018, police said. The baby boy was unconscious and unresponsive when he was found in the company of two women who were later taken into custody, police said.

Greene was not suffering any "obvious" signs of trauma when he was taken to the hospital, police said. The city medical examiner determined that Greene's cause of death was "asphyxia of undetermined cause," according to the office's spokeswoman.

The two women — 24-year-old Roneisha Collier and her 26-year-old fiancée Kiara Watson — were later released without being charged, the Daily News reported. Police sources told the News that Collier was the boy's step-sister and was attempting to feed him in the hotel when an employee called for police. Both women had heroin on them when they were arrested, the News reported.

When asked if Collier and Watson are considered suspects in the boy's homicide an NYPD spokesman replied "the investigation is ongoing."