Death of month-old baby in Staten Island was homicide: medical examiner

The July decease of a month-old babe lad connected Staten Island has been determined a homicide, constabulary said Tuesday.

Hospital unit told constabulary responding to a 911 telephone astatine Staten Island University Hospital astir 7 a.m. July 20 that the babe — identified arsenic Joseph Heben Jr.— was brought to the infirmary unconscious and unresponsive, and that helium had died, cops said.

The city’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner determined the decease was a homicide, cops said, but released nary different details. There’s been nary apprehension successful the lawsuit and the probe is ongoing, constabulary said.