Boy, 8, dies after a flower box falls on his head as he was climbing up the side of his house

  • Kevin Reilly, 8, was pronounced dead at a Brooklyn, New York, hospital Thursday
  • Reilly was climbing up the side of his Marine Park home just before 5:30pm
  • He grabbed onto a planter box which then fell onto his head
  • He was found unconscious and unresponsivle with head trauma 

By Associated Press and Ariel Zilber For Dailymail.com

Published: 20:38 EDT, 27 April 2017 | Updated: 01:10 EDT, 28 April 2017

An eight-year-old boy has died after a flower box fell onto his head while he was climbing up the side of his home in Brooklyn.

Police say Kevin Reilly was found unconscious and unresponsive with head trauma outside his two-story home in the New York City borough just before 5:30 pm on Thursday.

Authorities say the boy was climbing up a ground floor, gated window when he grabbed a six-foot long planter above the window, causing it to fall onto his head.

Authorities say an eight-year-old boy died after a planter box fell onto his head while he was climbing up the side of his home (above) in Brooklyn

Authorities say an eight-year-old boy died after a planter box fell onto his head while he was climbing up the side of his home (above) in Brooklyn

A neighbor said that first responders rushed to the scene quickly after getting word that the boy was hurt. 

A neighbor said that first responders rushed to the scene quickly after getting word that the boy was hurt. 

Authorities say the boy was climbing up a ground floor, gated window when he apparently grabbed a 6-foot long planter above the window (seen above on the ground), which then fell onto his head 

Authorities say the boy was climbing up a ground floor, gated window when he apparently grabbed a 6-foot long planter above the window (seen above on the ground), which then fell onto his head 

He was taken to Coney Island Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

'It was a freak accident,' a neighbor, Tom O'Malley, told the New York Post on Thursday night.

O'Malley said that first responders rushed to the scene quickly after getting word that Reilly was hurt. 

'They were screaming down there. Everyone came racing down: police, fire department, one after another they were flying down my block.'

 

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