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Police, EMS Respond to Injured Child in Hill District

Date: July 25, 2019
Incident Type: Child Injured
Location: Zone 2
Summary:

Pittsburgh Bureau of Police officers from Zone 2, as well as EMS, responded to reports of a child falling from a window in the 600 block of Watt Street in the Hill District just after 2:00 p.m.

When officers arrived on scene they found that a 3-year-old boy had managed to slip out of a home's second story window and fall to the ground.

EMS transported the boy to UPMC Children’s Hospital in stable, but critical condition with head injuries.

The child’s mother and grandmother were in the home at the time of the incident.

Police are investigating.


Reporting PIO:
Cara Cruz

2019-07-25
PIO@pittsburghpa.gov