UPDATE @ 11:06 p.m.: The grandmother of 3-year-old Hunter Wilcox said the Clark County boy just wanted to see the ocean when he fell from the balcony railing of the family's ninth-floor condo last weekend.
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“We wasn’t here twenty minutes and he must have slid out the door,” the woman told CBS-affiliate WECP-TV.
Members of the family from Medway, through a Go Fund Me page created in Hunter’s memory, said they believe the accident could have been prevented and are asking why there were “no child-proof locks on a hotel room nine stories high in the air.”
Hotel representatives issued a statement, which in part stated, “the loss of a child is heartbreaking and this tragedy has devastated us all.”
The child was pronounced dead at a Florida hospital. Panama City police officials said more information will be released once their investigation is complete.
INITIAL REPORT
A 3-year-old boy who died Saturday after falling from a condominium balcony was from the Miami Valley.
The boy and his family were visiting Panama City Beach from Medway, according to the local medical examiner’s office. Initial reports indicated the boy was from Midway, Ohio, but that information was later corrected.
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The boy fell from a balcony from the ninth story at Marisol Condominiums around 4 p.m. Saturday. He was taken to Bay Medical Center, where he died.
We are working to learn more about this developing story.
