Monday, November 22, 2010

Parents were taking photos moments before boy fell from luxury box at Lakers game


Good Afternoon! This is such a tragic story of carelessness,my sister told me about this this morning. so last night my family had dinner and the laker game was on in the background, anyways my sister was watching the after show and she said that it was only on for a few minutes and then they switched to an older game. This morning before i was getting ready for school she informed me of what happened. a toddler died after falling out of a luxury box.such a horrible story , it could have all been prevented with a little supervision. my heart goes out to the family. read on.


The parents of a 2-year-old who died after plunging 50 feet from a Staples Center luxury suite had been taking photos of the boy just before he fell, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Officials said the family was looking at the digital photos and lost track of the boy, who somehow went over the top of the glass partition, police said.

The boy, Lucas Anthony Tang, had been crawling around the suite during the Lakers game against the Golden State Warriors, sources said. At some point, his parents noticed he was missing and began to look for him.

They did not know then that their son, who would have turned 3 in January, had fallen. Witnesses at the game told The Times that the boy was moving his arms, legs and head before paramedics took him out on a stretcher.

The death is being investigated by the LAPD's abused-child unit, a standard practice that officials said does not necessarily mean a crime has been committed.

[Updated at 10:57 a.m.: "Our condolences and prayers go out to the Tang family. We are working with the Los Angeles Police Department on the investigation of this tragedy," Michael Roth, vice president of communications for the Staples Center, said in a statement

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BAYHO.

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