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Bushwick girl, 5, crushed
in tragic fence collapse
BY COLIN MIXSON
A stone fence crushed a 5-yearold
Bushwick girl to death on Thursday.
Surveillance footage obtained by
Brooklyn Paper shows Alysson Pinto
Chaumana outside her Harman
Street home near Cyprus Avenue at
8:55 p.m. on Aug. 29, when the waisthigh
fence guarding the building’s
courtyard falls, striking the child
square in the head.
The girl’s mother — who was
with her at the time — immediately
rushes the girl’s limp body away
from the shattered fence, footage
shows.
Police released a statement on
Friday claiming that the girl was
pulling on the fence at the time of
the collapse.
However, surveillance footage
shows the fence toppling without
provocation, and the girl was not
touching it at the time of the incident.
After the girl’s mother flagged
down a passing ambulance, and
paramedics rushed the girl to
Wyckoff Hospital, where she was
pronounced dead, cops said.
5-year-old Alysson Pinto-Chaumana was
killed after a piece of fence fell and hit her
on the head in Bushwick.
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