A 16-year-old boy, Timithee Englund, tragically fell to his death while taking social media photos from a cell tower in a Brooklyn park on Friday, around 1:15 p.m. Timithee, a sophomore at Manhattan Village Academy High School, was reportedly snapping pictures atop the tower inside Bushwick Intel Park, located at North 10th Street and Kent Avenue, when the fatal accident occurred.
The Tragic Incident
According to police, the teen plummeted from the top of the tower, prompting a 911 call. Authorities rushed him to Bellevue Hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries. His devastated parents, Tobias and Yvette Englund, remembered their son as a fun-loving and energetic young man who enjoyed playing sports and going to the gym.
“He was amazing, he was loving,” Yvette said. “He was goofy, funny… we cracked a bunch of jokes together,” said Tobias, describing their bond. Timithee was passionate about soccer and basketball and had plans to start wrestling in the fall.
A Family’s Heartbreak
The Englund family is still struggling to understand how or why Timithee fell. “He fell off a tower at the park,” Tobias said, their words filled with sorrow and confusion. They found some comfort by looking through his photos, but the circumstances surrounding his death remain unclear.
Sources have said that Timithee was likely taking social media photos when the tragic fall happened, though it’s unclear who was with him or who made the 911 call. The cell tower where the incident occurred is surrounded by a fence, but it appears to be insufficient at keeping people out.
A Dangerous Location
In a sad twist, a Post reporter observed three young individuals slipping under the same fence hours after the tragedy. One of them remarked, “We come in here all the time,” before they left upon learning of the fatal incident…