A 3-year-old boy was directly hit by street fireworks while watching out a window with his family in the south Bronx early on Wednesday.
According to police, the family was in their 6th floor apartment near W. 167th Street and Anderson Avenue when the accident happened.
Police reports said that a group of for to five men were on the street lighting the fireworks when one shot up into the apartment at about 12:10 a.m.
This video of the incident was released.
The 3-year-old child was rushed to Columbia Presbyterian Children’s Hospital where he was treated for burns to his left arm and stomach and then released, according to the NYPD.
That group of men was last observed by police retrieving fireworks from a grey, four-door Ford Fusion sedan with Pennsylvania license plates.
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