Police said a 2-year-old boy slipped from his father’s arms last weekend and fell from the second floor of a shopping mall in Denver, Colorado, and died earlier Monday.
At around 4pm on Sunday, the father of the child who did not want to be named had been holding him in his arms at the top of the escalator in the center of Aurora. Denver Post The report quoted the Aurora Police Department.
Police said the boy jumped out of his father’s arms and climbed over the escalator railing, causing him to fall to the first floor of the mall. Fox 31.
“I was in one of the shoe stores, I heard a lot of screams, I heard a lady’s scream, and then the owner suddenly ran outside to call, I heard him say, what happened, he can’t” he didn’t Close the shop because he has customers.Then he looked at me and told me what happened to a child falling off the escalator,” Cesar Solorzano, a shopping mall visitor at the time, quoted CBS 4.
“This is just a reminder to parents that even if you take your child down the escalator, you will never be too safe,” another shopper said.
According to a report by an affiliate of CBS, first responders took the boy away after the fall and took him to the hospital, where his injuries were life-threatening. The toddler passed away on Monday morning.
The police said they currently believe that the fall was an accident. The incident is still under investigation, and the police are urging witnesses to contact the authorities to assist in the investigation.
The police said: “We ask anyone who may have witnessed this and has not contacted the police, please contact the Denver Metro Fight Crime Hotline so that we can follow up with them.”
“At this time, our thoughts and prayers are with the boy and his family. We are working closely with the Aurora Fire and Police Department to investigate the accident,” a spokesperson for the Washington Prime Minister Group, the owner of the shopping center, was quoted by Fox 31. Response to the incident.
Express. The police believe that the fall of the 2-year-old boy was an accident, but the investigation of the incident is still ongoing.
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