A 10-year-old escaped serious injury after he fell from a third-floor window at a downtown Minneapolis shelter for families.
The incident occurred about 1 a.m. at Mary's Place in the 400 block of N. 7th Street, Assistant Fire Chief Melanie Rucker said.
"The child pushed the screen out of the window and fell," a statement from Rucker read.
Fire personnel called to the scene were told by front desk staff that a parent came down and retrieved the child, Rucker said.
Fire crews, HCMC paramedics and police went to the third-floor unit, spoke with the parents and saw that the child "was awake and alert," according to Rucker. As a precaution, paramedics took the child to the hospital for evaluation.
The parents told medical staff that their child is autistic and nonverbal and has a history of leaving the apartment, Rucker said.
