TV topples and kills toddler in Chicago
VIDEO - A 1-year-old boy died Tuesday after a television toppled onto him in his Chicago home...
A 1-year-old boy died Tuesday after a television toppled onto him in his Chicago home. Shawn Brown was taken from the home and rushed to a hospital by a relative shortly after 1 p.m., police said.
The incident happened on the second floor of the boy’s home. He was playing in one room, away from his mother, when the TV tipped over.
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“I never did see the baby. I didn’t want to see him. They said it busted his head open. He was bleeding so much, and I don’t think I could take it,” said the boy’s great-grandmother, Moselle Kylie.
Incidents of TVs falling on children resulted in at least three other Chicago area deaths since last fall. Gianna Hadjis, 4, of University Park was killed last month. A Hamilton Park girl, 3-year-old Shaniya Singleton, was killed in November, and a 6-year-old boy, Karl Clermont, was killed when a TV fell on his head in October.
