3-year-old boy dies after falling from 18th floor window in Uptown, Chicago officials say

Chicago police mentioned emergency crews responded round 7 p.m. to the Lake View Towers Residences within the 4500-block of North Clarendon.

Police mentioned the toddler was contained in the residence when he fell via a display window on to a parking storage under.

The boy was taken to Illinois Masonic in essential situation, the place he died.

Constructing residents mentioned the home windows within the flats open to the within like a V, and there are screens, however a small little one would possibly be capable of crawl in there. Nevertheless, the circumstances of the incident weren’t instantly clear and police and hearth officers haven’t supplied any extra particulars.

“We noticed them once they introduced the little child down on the stretcher. They was giving him chest compressions, and you possibly can see the place his face was all bloody,” mentioned Tracy Redmond, constructing resident.

“The mom was on the ground, yeah, once they took him with the stretcher. She was on the ground crying, you realize. Crying, her brow on the ground,” mentioned Etenesh Gebeyehu, whose daughter lives within the constructing.

“It is horrible to see this tragedy for that household, so devastated,” mentioned Marisol Chaica, constructing resident.

An investigation by Chicago police is ongoing. The property supervisor for the constructing instructed ABC7 she is unable to touch upon the incident at the moment.