A newborn baby was killed when his mother tossed him from a fourth-floor
window of their New York City apartment building and he landed on
courtyard pavement 40 feet below, a prosecutor said Saturday in
announcing her arrest on a murder charge.
Rashida Chowdhury, 21, was awaiting arraignment a day after 3-week-old
Rizwan Ahmad was found dead in a onesie on the barren courtyard of the
Queens building.
"This is a truly horrific and disturbing case," Queens District Attorney
Richard Brown said. "The alleged actions of the defendant are totally
incomprehensible."
Medical examiners ruled the baby's death a homicide, saying he died of
blunt impact injuries and had suffered skull fractures and lacerations
to his brain, liver and spleen.
Neighbor Mazol Ilyayeva told reporters she heard something fall around 4
a.m. Friday and then saw the child's lifeless, bloody body in the
courtyard.
"I couldn't move. I couldn't scream," she said. "I couldn't even look. ... It's horrible."
She said the parents had seemed stricken as they stood in the courtyard afterward.
"The mom was holding the husband," Ilyayeva said. "Their faces were blank."
It was unclear if Chowdhury had a lawyer who could comment on the
charges; no telephone number could immediately be found for her Queens
apartment.
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