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Seattle police found a 4-year-old boy dead inside a Roosevelt neighborhood apartment Thursday afternoon.

Officers arrested a woman believed to be the child’s mother; she is expected to be booked into King County Jail.

Police say the call began as a welfare check for a person in crisis; the investigation remains ongoing.

SEATTLE - A woman is in custody after Seattle police found a 4-year-old boy dead inside an apartment in the city’s Roosevelt neighborhood Thursday afternoon.

What we know:

Seattle police officers responded around 4:15 p.m. to a report of a person in crisis at an apartment near NE 67th St. and Roosevelt Way Northeast, according to Acting Assistant Chief Robert Brown.

"When they responded here, they encountered a female at the unit where the call had co

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