3-Year-Old Dies After Falling Through Screen Window on 18th Floor of Chicago Building: Police

A 3-year-old boy has died after falling from a building in Chicago, according to authorities.

The toddler was inside a residence on the 18th floor of a building in the 4500 block of N. Clarendon around 7 p.m. on Tuesday “when he fell through a screen window onto a parking garage below,” the Chicago Police Department confirms to PEOPLE.

The victim was taken to Illinois Masonic Hospital, but did not survive.

The medical examiner did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

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Tracy Redmond said she and others saw first responders bringing the victim out on a stretcher.

“They was giving him chest compressions, and you could see where his face was all bloody,” Redmond told the outlet.

Etenesh Gebeyehu, whose daughter lives in the building, said a woman she believed to be the victim’s mother “was on the floor crying” when the boy was being taken out on a stretcher.

“Crying, her forehead on the floor,” Gebeyehu recalled.

A spokesperson for the Department of Buildings said “no calls for service relevant to the accident” were made, and that no pending code enforcement actions existed against the property, according to Fox stationWFLD.

The circumstances surrounding the toddler’s death remain unclear. An investigation into Tuesday’s incident is ongoing, per the CPD.

source: people.com