A 30-year-old woman, believed to be the mother of the children, was taken into custody and being questioned by police, according to FOX 5 New York.
officers responded to an apartment at around 1:40 a.m. local time after family members called 911 from a different location with concerns that their relative may have harmed her three young children.
Officers went to the apartment but no one answered the door, according to the news outlet. They came across a man in the building who said that he was the father of one of the children. The man also expressed concerns about the safety of the children and told officers that he believed the mother and children were on the boardwalk, police said.
Officers began a search for the woman and children on the boardwalk, beach, and streets of Coney Island. The search lasted about 90 minutes until police got another 911 call directing them to Brighton 6th Street and Riegelmann Boardwalk, where they found the 30-year-old woman but not the children, police said.The NYPD said that is when the search was intensified, including aviation units and harbor units.
Crews immediately began CPR on the children. EMS rushed them to Coney Island Hospital, where they were pronounced dead.At a news conference on Monday morning, the NYPD said the woman had not yet been charged but was being questioned by detectives and was not being cooperative in the investigation. They were asking for any witnesses to come forward.
They added that it did not appear that there were any prior cases of abuse or neglect involving the woman.All the news you need to know, every day
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