A 20-year-old man has been charged with murder after telling police he threw his four-year-old brother Shimron Smith off the roof of the family’s seven-story apartment building. (Published Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018) 
 
 What to Know A 20-year-old man allegedly tossed his 4-year-old brother to his death from the boy's Brooklyn home, police said 
 
 Police found the little boy, Shimron Smith, unconscious and unresponsive in the courtyard outside his home in Brooklyn 
 
 The boy was pronounced dead at the scene. A 4-year-old boy was thrown to his death from the roof of his seven-story apartment building in Brooklyn by his 20-year-old brother on Saturday, the police said. Around 3:30 a.m., Mr. Smith approached two uniformed officers responding to a 911 call in the 70th Precinct, a few blocks from Shimron’s apartment in the East Midwood neighborhood, which is in the 63rd Precinct. Source: The New York Post More 
 
 The little boy was was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the NYPD. Shimron’s brother Shawn J. Smith, who suffers from schizophrenia, reportedly confessed to officers that he led his little brother to the roof of the Midwood building and pushed him off, according to The New York post. Shimron was the youngest of six children whose family arrived in Brooklyn from Guyana – a country on South America’s North Atlantic coast – less than a year ago. The investigation is ongoing.
– "I need to talk to you," Shawn Smith told cops a few blocks from his Brooklyn residence Saturday. "My brother may be hurt. He might be dead." Police officers soon found the body of Smith's little brother Shimron in a rear courtyard, where the 4-year-old was pronounced dead on the scene, reports the New York Times. The medical examiner later said he died from several blunt force injuries, per NBC New York, and Shawn was charged with second-degree murder for allegedly throwing his sibling from the roof of a seven-story apartment building. There's no known motive, but police say they have video of Shawn carrying Shimron to the roof, and Yahoo reports that Shawn suffers from schizophrenia. Asked if he wanted to harm his brother, Shawn seemed to grin and said, "Not really." Now the community around Nostrand Avenue between Avenues J and K is trying to comprehend the death of a child described as laughing and running as he went to and from school. "I can't fathom someone taking my child and throwing them off the roof," says Donna Heyward, who helped organize a memorial of candles, cloth flowers, and dolls. "It tears me apart." Shimron's family, including five other children, moved to New York from Guyana last year.