A 4-month-old baby in the Bronx died in August from acute cocaine intoxication, New York City’s chief medical examiner said on Thursday.
The death was ruled a homicide.
The police arrived at a home at 707 Eagle Avenue in the Bronx at 9:12 p.m. on Aug. 10 to find the infant, Ariel Gonzalez, unconscious and unresponsive.
Emergency medical workers then transported the baby to the borough’s Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. No signs of trauma were visible, the police said.
No arrests have been made, and the investigation is continuing, law enforcement officials said.
The tragedy echoed another recent death in the Bronx, when a 1-year-old baby, Nicholas Feliz Dominici, died last September after being exposed to fentanyl in the Divino Niño day care center in the Kingsbridge Heights neighborhood.
Emergency medical workers also found a 2-year-old boy and an 8-month-old girl inside the center, both unconscious and unresponsive. They were revived.
Near the areas in the day care facility where the children played and napped, investigators found a trap door in the floor that hid a kilo of fentanyl, other narcotics and drug paraphernalia. Another kilo of fentanyl was found in a hallway closet inside the nursery, and two kilo presses — used by drug dealers to package large quantities of drugs — were discovered elsewhere in the apartment.
The husband of the day care’s owner, Felix Herrera Garcia, was sentenced in June to 45 years in prison after pleading guilty to possessing narcotics with the intent to distribute and conspiring to distribute narcotics resulting in serious injury and death.
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