Police: Baby's body pulled from water near Brooklyn Bridge
August 5, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a baby who was found floating in the water near the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday.
A family visiting from Stillwater, Oklahoma, spotted the approximately 8-month-old boy wearing only diapers in the shallow water near the Manhattan shoreline at about 4 p.m.
Chiropractor Monte Campbell said his wife, Diana Campbell, first noticed the baby.
"She just called me over and said there was a baby in the water. I called 911. At that point I thought it was a doll," Campbell said.
Campbell said he "walked out mid-thigh level" in the East River and ret...
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