- The little girl plummeted from the second floor of the Southridge Mall as her parents were distracted
- Her stepmother described the stunt as a ‘”look what I can do” type thing’
- One witness reported hearing the girl’s body hit the ground before her parents rushed over
Bodycam footage shows the aftermath of a six-year-old’s fall from an escalator in a Wisconsin mall, after the girl clung to the railing and tried to be like ‘Superman.’
Greendale Police Department received over a dozen calls after 7 pm on February 27 reporting that the girl had plummeted from the second floor of the Southridge Mall.
Footage obtained by 12 News shows paramedics and officers crowding around her after she miraculously survived.
The little girl, lying prone on the floor, calls out for her father.
‘Anything hurt on you at all? Your head? What hurts?’ an officer asks.
‘My back and my arm,’ the girl responds.
‘You back and your arm? Okay. You don’t remember falling and hurting it, through?’ the officer asks. The girl responds that she doesn’t.
Bodycam footage released by the Greendale Police Department shows the moments after the little girl’s fall from the second floor of the Southridge Mall
The six-year-old was reportedly trying to ride the railing ‘like Superman’ when she plummeted to the ground below
She told officers she didn’t remember the fall, but reported pain in her back and arm
The little girl was taken to the hospital and released later that week. Her parents told police they were already on the second floor when the accident occurred
First responders are later seen lifting the girl and gingerly placing her on a stretcher so she can be taken to the hospital.
In the hospital room, a Greendale police officer spoke with her father and stepmother.
The parents said they got off the escalator to go to Champs Sporting Goods when they realized the little girl was several feet behind them.
‘I thought that she was close near us but she was by the escalator,’ the girl’s stepmother said.
‘And by the time that we turned around to call her over, she was like, oh, kind of like, “Hey, look what I can do” type thing.’
The girl’s father claimed they were between five and seven feet away from the girl when they saw her grabbing the railing.
‘We were already on the second floor. And she grabs the top of the rail. And she goes, and she was like Superman,’ the man said.
Police also interviewed witnesses. Some said they didn’t witness the accident, but heard the sound of the girl’s body hitting the ground.
One woman said she heard ‘a loud thump’ before seeing the parents sprinting down the escalator.
Another woman claimed to have seen the fall. ‘I looked over and the little girl went down and mom and dad were turning and we just heard a scream,’ she told police.
‘And I ran because I didn’t know if it was real. I didn’t know what the hell it was.’
The girl was released from the hospital later that week, according to authorities. The incident is not being investigated as suspicious and is believed to be an accident.