Crime & Safety
13-Year-Old Boys Who Jumped In Hudson River Still Missing: Cops
Cops were still searching Monday for two boys who jumped into the river in Inwood Hill Park on Friday afternoon, police said.
INWOOD, MANHATTAN — Police are still looking for two 13-year-old boys who jumped into the Hudson River on Friday in Inwood Hill Park, cops said.
The two boys, who the family identified to the New York Post as Isaiah Moronta and Manny Flores, jumped into the water on Friday near West 218th Street and Indian Road, police said.
Witnesses told officers that the two teenagers appeared to be having trouble swimming. Emergency responders were called for a water rescue at the park around 4:30 p.m., police said.
The search quickly ramped up as helicopters, search boats and a rescue team with wet suits and life preservers showed up at the park, a resident who was at the park told Patch.
"We saw a number of police and fire rescue vehicles assembled just passed Muscota Marsh at the peninsula at 218th," Barry Solow said. "Police were talking to a bunch of kids and rescue personnel got wet suits and life preservers it [sic] off their vehicles."
Officers still hadn't found the teens as of Monday morning, an NYPD spokesperson told Patch.
Items appearing to belong to the boys — a pair of blue eyeglasses and gray-colored pants or shorts — were spotted near the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge between Inwood and the Bronx by New York Post photographers on Saturday, according to the Post.
