A 4-year-old boy was in critical condition from a drug overdose he ingested at a Brooklyn family shelter Tuesday, police and sources said Tuesday.
Police rushed to the Women In Need shelter on Glenwood Road near Schenectady Ave. in East Flatbush around 8 a.m., police said.
A man staying at the family shelter recalled seeing medics arriving and swiftly loading the little boy into a waiting ambulance.
“He wasn’t moving when they brought him out,” the man told the Daily News, asking that he not be named. “It looked like he was going to die.”
Medics raced the boy to Maimonides Medical Center, where late Tuesday night he remained in critical condition. It’s suspected he overdosed on fentanyl, according to police sources.
The boy’s parents were taken into custody, sources said. Charges were not immediately filed.
The horrific overdose comes a day after a drug-dealing operator of a Bronx day care was sentenced to 45 years in prison for the death of a toddler exposed to fentanyl and the overdoses of three other children.
The term was handed down in Manhattan Federal Court to Grei Mendez, 37, who pleaded guilty to a slate of narcotics offenses last October — six days before she was set to go on trial for her participation in the drug-dealing day care where 22-month-old Nicholas Feliz-Dominici was killed, a 25-month-old was seriously injured, and two children ages 8 months and 25 months were poisoned.