By Associated Press - Thursday, April 24, 2014

NEW YORK (AP) - Police have identified a 9-year-old Bronx boy who was found unconscious on top of scaffolding outside the 30-story residential building where he lived.

Police say the boy, Sidy Fofana, was pronounced dead at the scene at 20 Richmond Plaza in Morris Heights. It happened just after 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Police did not say how he came to be on the scaffolding.



The medical examiner will determine the cause of death.

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