Relatives took the boy, Shaun Brown, to Roseland Community Hospital and he was transferred to University of Chicago Hospitals, where he was pronounced dead at 3:21 p.m. Relatives said his skull was fractured and one eye was badly injured.
This is the fourth time in little more than three months that a child in the Chicago area has been killed by a falling television.
Shaun was running through the living room of the home in the 11300 block of South Edbrooke Avenue when he bumped a large, older model tube television at about 1 p.m.,.
The television fell off a narrow wooden cabinet and struck the boy in the head, relatives said. The mother lifted the television off the boy, who didn't appear to be breathing, according to Shaun's great-grandmother, Mozelle Kyles, 78.
Shaun’s mother ran downstairs screaming, “The baby is dead,’’ said Shaun’s cousin Michael Jennings.
The family was told the child suffered serious injuries to his head and one of his eyes.
Police said the television was more than than 45 inches wide, weighed more than a hundred pounds and was sitting on a “fish tank” stand.
DCFS spokesman Kendall Marlowe said the agency was investigating. “We have not had any previous investigation with this family,’’ Marlowe said. No other children lived at the home
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