NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 11:37 AM
Updated: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 12:10 PM
Cops are investigating the death of a 4-year-old Bronx boy who may have accidentally ingested rat poison, sources said Tuesday.
Juan Sanchez died at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital at 9:49 a.m. Monday, a day after he may have swallowed poison left by an exterminator in the family’s Tinton Ave. apartment two weeks ago, sources said.
The incident unfolded after Juan, his mom and his four brothers, ages 3 to 10, returned home from a park about 11 a.m. Sunday to have pancakes.
A little more than two hours later Juan fell ill, foaming at the mouth and turning blue, sources said.
The child was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, then transferred to Columbia-Presbyterian, but he could not be saved.
The boy’s mother and father were interviewed by detectives, but police do not suspect foul play.
The mother told detectives rat poison had been placed in the home by an exterminator. It was not clear if such poison was also in the park where Juan and his siblings had played.
At first, sources said, there was a suspicion that alcohol played a role in the boy’s death because the mother told detectives that when the family returned from the park, Juan’s 8-year-old brother reported seeing him drinking from a 25-ounce can of King Cobra malt liquor left in the building’s hallway.
But toxicology tests found no alcohol in his system, sources said.
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