Crime & Safety
Boy, 12, Collapses on Basketball Court Friday Night
The boy was listed in critical condition at the hospital on Friday night.
A 12-year old boy collapsed while playing basketball at the Tindall Park courts on Friday night, around 7:17 p.m.
Middletown Police, Port Monmouth First Aid and MONOC paramedics rushed the boy to Riverview Hospital in Red Bank where he was listed in critical condition around 11:30 p.m. Friday according to Lt. Stephen Dollinger.
Doctors were trying to stabilize him in order to take him by helicopter to the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, Dollinger said.
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Police have no further updates on his condition, said Dollinger, on Saturday at 2 p.m. The boys name has not been released.
is located on Tindall Road, across the street from Middletown High School North.
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