Dead twin infants found outside Claremont
building in fall ruled double homicide: NYPD
BY ALEX MITCHELL
The NYPD has ruled
the grisly death of two infants
found outside of a Bronx
residential building last November
as homicides, with a
$10,000 reward now offered for
anyone to come forward and
help catch the individual responsible
for their demise.
On April 8, Bronx Homicide
Squad Commander Lieutenant
William O’Toole provided updates
on the full term, identical
twin boys who were found
bagged outside of 1460 College
Ave. in Claremont at about 1:45
p.m on Wednesday, Nov. 9.
Though initial reports that
the boys had been thrown
from a high distance, O’Toole
said the autopsies conducted
by the Medical Examiner’s offi
ce found that the infants had
died from “blunt force trauma
to the skull” that “doesn’t appear
to be from a fall,” as their
cause of death.
He also alluded that they
were possibly hit or intentionally
struck until killed, then
left in the rear of the College
Avenue location. The building’s
superintendent made the
horrifi c discovery, prompting
a 911 call.
O’Toole estimates that the
babies had been left at the location
for up to 12 hours before
they were found.
The commanding offi cer
also said that there was no direct
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surveillance view of the
crime scene, which is a back
garbage alley in between College
and Teller Avenues.
“Not all the cameras were
working,” he said, noting that
better equipment has since
been installed to the building.
Now, the “pretty exhausting
investigation” has reached
the forensic science phase of
analyzing both fi ngerprints
and DNA evidence, investigators
said, stressing that the
public’s aid could be crucial in
bringing this infant-killer to
justice.
O’Toole also commended
residents of that building for
coming forward to cooperate
as many offered fi ngerprint
and DNA to police.
He also said that this crime
does not appear to be connected
to an adjacent shelter,
which had four pregnant
women residing at the time.
The infant’s biological
mother, who remains unknown
is a person of interest
in this case, O’Toole said.
But he insisted that someone
knows something who can fi -
nally help solve this gruesome
crime.
“There’s not much that goes
on in this city that someone
doesn’t know,” O’Toole said.
Anyone with information
in regard to this incident is
asked to call the NYPD’s Crime
Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-
TIPS (8477) or for Spanish,
1-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can
also submit tips online at nypdcrimestoppers.
com, or on
Twitter @NYPDTips. All calls
and messages are kept confi -
dential.
Detectives put up wanted posters throughout the west Bronx community after twin infants were found in the
rear of a College Avenue building Monday. Photo by Alex Mitchell
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