Authorities are searching for answers after a 3-year-old boy, identified as Kyng Davis, was brought to a New York hospital in a lifeless state and later died.
On Sunday, March 9, at around 11:30 a.m., an unidentified woman dropped off the unresponsive toddler at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Witnesses reported that the child, who was covered in bruises, appeared lifeless when he arrived at the hospital.
A hospital employee, speaking with Pix 11, described the scene, stating, “I heard that some lady [was] bringing in a baby, lifeless.”
The employee added that when staff attempted to ask the woman what had happened, she immediately left the scene, leaving in a car that was waiting for her outside the hospital.
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Kyng’s grandmother, Kayatta Foster, later confirmed that the child was her grandson. Foster, visibly emotional, shared her grief with CBS News New York.
“I’m the grandmother. It’s hurting me, y’all. I don’t know what to do right now,” she said. She also had a stern message for whoever was involved in Kyng’s death: “Whoever did this to my grandson, the grandmother is coming for y’all.”
Foster was accompanied by Kyng’s godmother, Sabrina Johnson, who expressed her sorrow for the loss. “When I see his face, the cutest little dude you ever wanted to see… And it’s just so sad that he’s no longer here,” Johnson said.
She added that despite the tragedy, she found solace in the thought that Kyng was no longer in pain. “God gained an angel,” Johnson said, “and I’m so sad that it took only three years of him being on the world, because he could’ve had so much more.”
An autopsy is pending to determine the cause of death, but early signs, such as rigor mortis, suggest that Kyng may have already been dead when he was brought to the hospital.
The medical examiner’s preliminary examination noted this possible indicator of death before the child arrived.
