A 16-year-old boy known for his spunky personality fell to his death Friday while snapping social media photos from a cell tower at a Brooklyn park with sweeping views of the city skyline.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Timithee Englund, a sophomore at Manhattan Village Academy High School, plummeted from the top of the tower inside Bushwick Intel Park at North 10th Street and Kent Avenue around 1:15 p.m., police said.<\/p>\n
Cops responded to the scene after receiving a 911 call and rushed the critical teen to Bellevue Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n
Timithee Englund, 16, fatally plummeted from the tower inside Bushwick Inlet Park at North 10th Street and Kent Avenue around 1:15 p.m., police said. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n
The boy\u2019s heartbroken parents, Tobias and Yvette Englund, remembered their son as an energetic teen who loved playing sports and hitting the gym.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was amazing, he was loving,\u201d Yvette, 52, said Friday night, with Tobias adding that Timithee \u201cwas goofy\u201d and \u201cfunny.\u201d<\/p>\n
The boy was taking photos at the time, sources said. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n
\u201cWe cracked a bunch of jokes together,\u201d the 57-year-old dad said.<\/p>\n
They said he spent his free time playing soccer and basketball and planned to start wrestling in the fall.<\/p>\n
The bereaved parents \u2013 who found solace looking through their son\u2019s photos \u2013 still don\u2019t know how or why he fell.<\/p>\n
The park overlooks a sweeping view of the Manhattan skyline. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n
\u201cHe fell off a tower at the power,\u201d Tobias said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s all that we know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sources said the boy was taking social media photos when the tragic fall happened, though it was not immediately clear who was with him at the time or who called 911.<\/p>\n
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The seemingly abandoned cell tower is surrounded by a fence, but it\u2019s not much of a deterrent.<\/p>\n
A Post reporter spotted three youngsters slipping under the fence hours after Friday\u2019s tragedy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe come in here all the time,\u201d one of the kids said before the trio left after learning the teen had fatally tumbled from the tower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old boy known for his spunky personality fell to his death Friday while snapping social media photos…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":670453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5312,345,3981,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-670452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-parks","18":"tag-social-media","19":"tag-teens","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116264691636585555","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}