2-year-old boy dies after falling from second floor at Aurora mall

A 2-year-old lad who fell from the 2nd level of an Aurora promenade connected Sunday died aboriginal Monday morning, according to the Aurora Police Department.

Around 4 p.m. Sunday, the boy’s begetter was holding him successful his arms astatine the apical of an escalator astatine the Town Center of Aurora, constabulary said. The kid pushed forward, and the lad slipped from the father’s arms, falling to the archetypal floor, constabulary said.

Police are inactive investigating and are asking anyone who witnessed the incidental to scope retired to Metro Denver Crime Stoppers.

Police person said that, astatine this point, they judge the autumn was an accident.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the lad and his household astatine this time,” the Town Center of Aurora said successful a quality release. “We are moving intimately with the Aurora occurrence and constabulary departments arsenic they analyse the accident.”

The sanction of the young lad who died has not been released.