Mi’layah Marie Hardy, 4 year old Shoreline girl falls out window while jumping on bed close to window at Washington State apartment. Girl’s mom, Najaha Chancellor says she was watching her 4 children alone when the tragedy happened.
A 4 year old Washington State girl was killed last weekend after she fell out of a fifth floor apartment building while jumping up and down her bed.
Mi’layah Marie Hardy had been jumping up and down on a bed close to an open window at her apartment in Shoreline, Washington State, when the child lost her balance.
The incident took place at the Echo Lake Apartments located at 1160 North 192nd Street on Sunday, Oct. 13, Fox 13 Seattle reported, citing the King County Sheriff’s Office.
What was suppose to be a playful time suddenly turned into tragedy in what her family have since described as a ‘freak accident.’
Najaha Chancellor, the girl’s mother said she had been watching her four children on her own last Sunday when one of her children opened her bedroom window.
Mi’layah had been jumping on the bed when she fell into the screen covering the window which then gave way.
A Good Samaritan attempted to give the child CPR until first responders arrived, but the little girl was too badly injured and died from her injuries after being taken to hospital.
‘I went around the back after I heard someone screaming,’ Andre Alexander, a witness told KIRO. ‘When I went back there, I seen the young lady, the little girl had fell out the window.
‘There’s a young man who’s a real hero. This young man did over four and a half minutes of CPR by himself,’ Alexander added.
The Medical Examiner ruled the girl died from blunt force trauma caused by the fall.
‘She has a beautiful soul. And I’m just never, none of us are going to get that back,’ mother, Najaha Chancellor told the outlet.
‘She bumped into it, the screen fell off and she went down,’ Chancellor said. ‘I completely lost it.
‘As a mother, it’s your job. It’s your job to protect your children at all costs.
‘I’m just trying to keep it together as any mother would try to do. I still have three other kids to show I have to be strong for. So crying is going to make kids even more emotional.
‘I’m never ever going to get over this because it’s different when it’s your child that you lose. It’s absolutely different.’
Chancellor described her daughter as being particularly outgoing and expressive, not to mention caring.
‘She just made everyone happy, it didn’t matter who it was. Everyone just loved her, cared about her,’ Chancellor said.
‘She adored the simple things in life, like her favorite fruit, bananas, and her love for the water. Swimming was one of her greatest joys; she loved splashing around and enjoying the freedom the water gave her. Mi’layah was smart, playful, and beautiful, and her memory will forever be a part of our family,’ her mother wrote in a tribute.
Writing on Facebook, Chanellor shared her grief in an online posting.
‘I love you Mi’layah Marie unique hardy you were my world baby girl I’m still so speechless right now I can’t find the words to gather and say almost a week of no food barely any rest I wake up the same time everyday and I’m back up the whole entire day. I just wish back in time was a thing,’ Chanellor wrote.
The family have set up a GoFundMe to help pay for funeral expenses.
To date the fundraiser has raised $3,935 out of a $5K goal.
Not immediately clear is how the child’s bed came to be right up against the window, in what social commentators came to call out as a bad judgement on the apparently single mom.
Wrote one commentator, ‘Parents, please don’t put beds near windows, especially a child’s bed. Another thing that could happen if the window is closed and they go flying towards it, their head will go through the glass and possibly cut their throat.’
While another opined, ‘The mother will sue the apt complex, the bed manufacturer, and the screen maker, mark my words.’
