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13-Year-Old Boy Dies After Falling From Bushwick Rooftop, Police Say

By  Ben Fractenberg and Gwynne Hogan | March 24, 2017 6:55pm | Updated on March 27, 2017 9:36am

BROOKLYN — A 13-year-old boy died after he and another teen plummeted from the roof of a Bushwick building, according to officials and reports.

The two teens fell from the three-story apartment building at 57 Grove St., near Bushwick Avenue, at about 5:32 p.m. Friday, an FDNY spokesman said.

Emergency workers responded to a 911 call and found Rame Pierre-Louis, 13, who lived nearby on Wilson Avenue, unconscious alongside a 15-year-old boy, police said.

They rushed the teens to Kings County Hospital, where Pierre-Louis was later pronounced dead. The 15-year-old was in serious condition with injuries to his pelvis, police noted.

The circumstances surrounding the fall are still under investigation, police said.