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Monday was the last day fourth grader Jonathan Jewth would attend school at PS 47 in Bruckner, and now his family has many questions as to why.

"His mom dropped him off at school never knowing he wouldn't return home just from choking on a meatball, and we really, really want to know what happened to Jonathan,” said Shelian, a family friend who did not want to give her full name.

Police say school staff performed CPR on Jonathan after he started choking. He was rushed to the hospital, but he was pronounced brain-dead.

His family said he was taken off life support Wednesday.

"They are devastated. It’s their only child, and the loss of a young child, to be gone so early in life, is tragic. It’s very devastating. I wish that the school will try to prepare teachers, workers to be more prepared for a situation like this," said Indira Ramrup, Jonathan’s cousin.

However, family members say they have been hearing conflicting reports about what actually happened that day.

Shelian said questions have surfaced about how much time elapsed between when Jonathan started choking and when the school called for an ambulance.

"That's what we would like to know—the honesty of what happened to Jonathan. It's not adding up," said Shelian.

The family wants the incident to be fully investigated so they can find out exactly what happened to Jonathan in hopes that no other family will have to suffer the loss of a child this way.

“I don’t know what went wrong. This shouldn’t have happened,” said Ramrup.

Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said in a statement the city is providing grief counseling to parents, teachers and students, but education officials have not responded to requests for comment about exactly what happened.