2-Year-Old Dies After Climbing Four Stories And Falling From Daycare

According Boston Globe reports: A 2-year-old boy who fell to his death from a Dorchester apartment building Wednesday morning apparently wandered away unnoticed from a day-care center on the first floor and climbed four stories before opening a door to the roof and tumbling to his death, a Boston city councilor said.

“Unfortunately, it sounds like the child was at some point left unattended,” said Councilor Tito Jackson, who visited the scene. “Sadly, part of our future is gone today.”

The child fell from the building located at 131 Columbia Road, and his family identified him as Daylan Walker in an interview Wednesday night at their Grove Hall home.
“This is a nightmare,” said Walker’s grandmother, Lucrecia Rivera, 42, speaking in Spanish through an interpreter.

Rivera wept as she said that Daylan had cried Wednesday morning when she dropped him off at the center, and told her that he did not want to be left there.

“My only grandson, the light of this house,” Rivera said. “Where was I to save you from all these dangers? . . . I would have rather died myself instead of him.”

The child suffered fatal trauma after falling from a building, said Jake Wark, spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, citing preliminary evidence.

Boston police Superintendent in Chief William G. Gross, who was at the scene, said that police officers arrived just before 10 a.m. and found the boy lying on the pavement behind the building. The child was immediately taken to Boston Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, Gross said.

Police Sergeant Michael McCarthy said he could not confirm that the child had left the day-care center and fallen from the roof because the investigation was still ongoing, but said, “We’re looking into that as a possibility of how it happened.”

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