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A 3-year-old boy plummeted to his death out of a screened window at a high-rise apartment building in Chicago, police said.

The child, identified Wednesday as Chaise Binion, fell out of an 18th-floor screen window from Lake View Towers in the city’s Uptown section at about 7 p.m. Tuesday.

The toddler landed on a third-floor parking garage at the residential complex in the 4500 block of North Clarendon Avenue. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital, police said.

An investigation into the boy’s death is ongoing. No arrests had been made as of early Wednesday.

The boy was identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

The two-tower apartment complex where Chaise died overlooks Lake Shore Drive. A three-story parking garage is located between the towers and Chaise apparently fell from the north building, WREG reported.

Residents at the complex said windows in the units open to the inside — and that a small child may be able to crawl into the space, but the circumstances of the boy’s death remain unclear, WLS-TV reported.


  The child, identified Wednesday as Chaise Binion, fell out of an 18th-floor screen window from Lake View Towers in the city’s Uptown section at about 7 p.m. Tuesday. FOX 32 Chicago The child, identified Wednesday as Chaise Binion, fell out of an 18th-floor screen window from Lake View Towers in the city’s Uptown section at about 7 p.m. Tuesday. FOX 32 Chicago

  An investigation into the boy’s death is ongoing. No arrests had been made as of early Wednesday. FOX 32 Chicago An investigation into the boy’s death is ongoing. No arrests had been made as of early Wednesday. FOX 32 Chicago

“We saw them when they brought the little kid down on the stretcher,” Tracy Redmond told the station. “They was giving him chest compressions, and you could see where his face was all bloody.”

Etenesh Gebeyehu, whose daughter lives in the building, said the boy’s mother was crying when he was taken away on a stretcher.

“It’s terrible to see this tragedy for that family, so devastated,” another resident, Marisol Chaica, told the station.


  The two-tower apartment complex where Chaise died overlooks Lake Shore Drive. A three-story parking garage is located between the towers and Chaise apparently fell from the north building, WREG reported. FOX 32 Chicago The two-tower apartment complex where Chaise died overlooks Lake Shore Drive. A three-story parking garage is located between the towers and Chaise apparently fell from the north building, WREG reported. FOX 32 Chicago

Building inspectors, meanwhile, scoured the apartment complex late Tuesday in search of code violations, but no information has been released, WFLD reported.

Attempts to reach Chaise’s family were unsuccessful early Wednesday. A woman who answered the phone at the apartment complex said she could not comment on his death.

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