The great-grandmother of a 4-year-old Brooklyn boy beaten to death in his home last weekend wept Wednesday while calling for an arrest in the brutal killing.
“They’re not telling us anything,” a devastated Dena Emerson told the Daily News through tears. “This is a tragedy. My (great) grandson is not unique but he’s my grandson. I never thought it would hit me at home.”
Emerson, 67, was both outraged and grief-stricken by the fatal beating of tiny Aisyn Emerson Gonzalez, a boy with lots of love and support from her side of the family.
A source familiar with the case said the child suffered severe head and rib injuries before police arrived at the boy’s Williamsburg apartment on S. 5th St. near Berry St. Saturday morning.
The city medical examiner has ruled his death a homicide, finding he was a victim of battered child syndrome.
“I talk to him every day through FaceTime,” recalled Emerson. That baby didn’t lack for nothing. That baby was a happy baby. We don’t understand this.”
The family matriarch recalled her shock at the phone call with word of the boy’s hospitalization and said Aisyn’s biological father was “not well at all. He’s in shock. He’s angry.”
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Aisyn Gonzalez was rushed by medics Saturday morning from his family’s Williamsburg apartment on S. 5th St. to Woodhull Hospital but could not be saved.
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