Child killed by mirror at west side Wal-Mart
uly 24, 2006, 07:38 PM
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| Christopher Antonio |
Indianapolis - Police say a three-year-old boy was killed after stepping on to the rubber bumper of a three-sided, six-foot-high mirror at a west side Wal-Mart Saturday. The mirror fell on Chrisopher Antonio, 3, who died from his injuries.
Somehow the mirror came unhinged. "He actually stepped on the mirror to some degree and that mirror became unhinged," said Capt. Phil Burton, Marion County Sheriff's Department. "It fell on top of him and crushed him."
The 911 call came in for paramedics around 6:00 pm Saturday night. Christopher was taken to Methodist Hospital, where we was pronounced dead a short time later.
"The coroner's office was called. The coroner's office called the sheriff's department and that was about four hours later," said Burton.
Now Marion County sheriff's department investigators are being forced to conduct the investigation backwards. "When you go to investigate a crime, we want the crime scene left untouched. By the time our detectives got on the scene, everything was cleaned up; it was taken to the rear of the store, so everything had been moved. Right now it doesn't appear any criminal activity has taken place; it is just an unfortunate freak accident that happened to take this little boy's life," said Burton.
Family members declined an on-camera interview but are working to raise money to transport Antonio's body back to Mexico to be buried.