3YO Left Home Alone In 11th-Floor Apartment Wandered Into Hallway, Fell From Window

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Tarvis Phenix Jr. was arrested and charged with one count of first-degree endangering the welfare of a child resulting in death after he allegedly left his 3-year-old son home alone in his apartment where the child wandered into a hallway and fell to his death from an open window on the 11th floor.

According to a probable cause affidavit, officers with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department responded to an apartment in the early morning hours of April 10 regarding a report of a missing child. Phenix, who placed the call, told police his young son had disappeared. Officers soon located the boy dead "outside the back of the apartment, having fallen to the pavement."

Surveillance footage reviewed by investigators captured the moments leading up to the child's death.

Police say Phenix left the 11th-floor apartment at 11:52 p.m., took the elevator downstairs, and drove away from the complex. About 40 minutes later, at 12:36 a.m., the toddler exited the apartment alone and began wandering the floor.

Surveillance footage reviewed by investigators captured the moments leading up to the child's death.

Police say Phenix left the 11th-floor apartment at 11:52 p.m., took the elevator downstairs, and drove away from the complex. About 40 minutes later, at 12:36 a.m., the toddler exited the apartment alone and began wandering the floor.

The child made his way to the elevator lobby, where two built-in benches were positioned underneath the ledges of two windows, both of which were open.

"At 12:44 a.m., the victim climbed on a bench in the elevator lobby," the affidavit states. "The victim looked out the open window, climbed on the ledge and out of the window, and then fell out of the window. Outside of the window is a straight drop to the concrete at the ground level."

Phenix returned to the complex at 12:51 a.m. and was back inside his apartment two minutes later, according to investigators.

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3-year-old left home alone in 11th-floor apartment wandered into hallway, fell from window

Tarvis Phenix was arrested in Missouri after he allegedly left his 3-year-old son home alone, allowing the boy to wonder into the hallway and fall 11 stories to his death.

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