2-month-old twins in New York City homeless shelter die after father finds them not breathing
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}New York City police have reported the tragic deaths of twin two-month-old babies at a shelter for homeless families that was once a LaGuardia Airport motel.
There’s no sign the infants’ deaths at the shelter in Queens Friday afternoon was a crime, the New York Post reported, citing a law enforcement source.
The paper published a report Saturday that cited the law enforcement source as saying the parents were no longer being questioned by detectives.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Landing Shelter near LaGuardia Airport in New York City. (Google Earth)
The Post also published photos of the babies who were named Liyam and Liyah Jenkins.
A nonprofit converted the LaGuardia motel into The Landing Shelter for 169 families several years ago with money from New York City’s Department of Social Services.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The deaths come as New York Mayor Bill de Blasio last week announced a new offensive to deal with the city's ever-growing homeless crisis.
The father woke up from a three-hour afternoon nap and found the infants not breathing in separate cribs, WNBC-TV reported.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The cribs were filled with pillows, the station reported.
Doctors were unable to save them at the hospital, the station reported.
The station interviewed a man named Joseph Smith at the shelter who described the babies as “lifeless” hooked up to respirators.
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“It’s just a horrible thing to see,” he said.