A teenage boy died after falling down an elevator shaft on Staten Island Friday.
The NYPD says officers were called to 100 Castleton Avenue in New Brighton at 4:40 p.m. Friday. When first responders arrived, they found 16-year-old Marcos Castillo with head trauama.
He was taken to Richmond University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Officals say they believe the Staten Island teen was playing a game with a group of other kids in the abandoned building when he stepped on a wooden plank in the shaft, which then split.
"My mom always told me don't go in there and now just to hear that there's a boy who fell in there, I know it's really dangerous," said one girl. "There's a school right here, Intermediate School 61. And a whole bunch of them, I know there's a whole bunch that, they don't know what to do after school, and if there's a hospital right here, of course, who's gonna want to - it's just scary."
The Department of Buildings says it declared the building unsafe and ordered to seal the property in 1992.
The Department of Housing Preservation and Development has designated a contractor to seal the building. It is also slated for demolition.