Timothee Englund's parents remember him as an "amazing" teen who had a passion for sports
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NEED TO KNOW
- A New York City teen died this week after falling from a light tower he had climbed to take photos of the city skyline
- Timothee Englund, 16, scaled the metal structure, located in Brooklyn’s Bushwick Inlet Park, on Friday, March 20, at the time of the accident
- Englund’s parents remember him as a “goofy” and “loving” teen who had a passion for sports
A New York City teen has died after falling from a light tower he had climbed to take photos of the city skyline.
New York Police Department officers were called to Bushwick Inlet Park in Brooklyn at around 1:15 p.m. local time on Friday, March 20, after receiving a 911 call about a person falling from "an elevated position," an NYPD spokesperson told PEOPLE.
At the scene, first responders found a 16-year-old who was "unconscious and unresponsive." The teen was quickly taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
The teen's parents, Yvette and Tobias Englund, identified him as Timothee Englund, 16, to the New York Daily News and the New York Post.
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"We just lost our son," Tobias, 57, told the Daily News. "He fell down and had an accident."
Police told the outlet that the high schooler had fallen roughly 15 feet from the tower inside the park, and the Post reported that Timothee was taking social media photos at the time of the fall, though it was not immediately clear who called 911 or who else was present at the scene.
The metal light pole was inside a chain-link fence, the Daily News reported, but there was a large gap in the fence.
The teen's dad said his family was still searching for answers as to why their son had scaled the metal-frame tower.
"We don’t know what happened," he said.
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Yvette and Tobias remembered their late son, who was a sophomore at New York's Manhattan Village Academy, as a dedicated athlete with a "goofy" and "funny" personality.
"He was a high school kid," his father told the Daily News. "He was an athlete. He played soccer and pickup basketball when we went to the gym."
"We cracked a lot of jokes," he added of Timothee, as Yvette, 52, told the Post: "He was amazing, he was loving."
The Office of Chief Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death. There have been no arrests, and the investigation into the fatal incident remains ongoing.
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