Yohan Hernandez, 14, was standing on a chair installing a curtain rod at his Bronx apartment window, where he lived with his mother and brothers, when he fell five floors to his death. Continue reading after the jump.
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Police said one of the chair legs collapsed, tipping Hernandez out of the open window.
Despite tree branches breaking his fall, Hernandez died of his injuries in a nearby hospital.
Speaking to the New York Post family friend Louisa Quezada, 21, said: ‘He was always there.
‘I grew up with him. It was a close family. He was a good brother.’
Also talking to the paper, 32-year-old Frenchy Figueroa, the boy’s aunt, said she could not understand his death.
‘You don’t just fall out of a window, but he did. He was always a happy baby.’
Orlando Ventura, 44, who witnessed the gruesome scene said ‘His stomach was swollen. He was pale. They were pumping him, pumping him, pumping him.’
