Boy, three, plunges to his death after falling out of fourth-floor window at apartment block

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

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A toddler fell to his death from a fourth-floor window after neighbors tried in vain to reach him as he screamed for help.

Gabriel Estevez, three, died on Saturday afternoon after he lost his grip while clinging to the ledge.

Bystanders rushed to try to catch the child at the building in the Bronx but no one made it in time.

Terror: Gabriel Estevez, three, screamed for help before falling from the apartment building in the Bronx, New York

Terror: Gabriel Estevez, three, screamed for help before falling from the apartment building in the Bronx, New York

Cries for help: Neighbors heard the toddler screaming and tried to reach him but were too late

Cries for help: Neighbors heard the toddler screaming and tried to reach him but were too late

A neighbor gave the child CPR until emergency services arrived. He died at Lincoln Hospital at 4.15pm after falling from the building on East 161 Street in the New York borough.

Neighbor Frank White, 33, told New York Daily News: 'He was screaming for help. By the time we got across the street he had already fell.'

The child's distraught mother was believed to have been out when her son fell and his father working as a cab driver.

It is believed that Gabriel fell from the superintendent's apartment and police have since sealed the home.

Horror: The boy tumbled out of a window as neighbors tried in vain to reach him

Horror: The boy tumbled out of a window as neighbors tried in vain to reach him

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