It was a tragic morning for a father who woke up to find his young daughter had fallen nine stories from a window to her death.
Without thinking, he rushed to the pavement below their West Philadelphia apartment building where he held his 8-year-old daughter's lifeless body, said police.
The victim shared a room with her 10-year-old sister and she too woke up to find her younger sibling had fallen out of their bedroom window located on the ninth floor of their building at 42nd and Locust, a neighbor tells NBC10.
The child fell around 7:45 a.m. and was pronouced dead at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 45 minutes later.
Neighbors visibly shaken by the tragedy say the girls and their father, an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, had recently moved into the building.
"They were the nicest family," the building's manager told NBC10.
An investigation is underway, but police say that they believe the young girls death was a tragic accident.
No one has been charged in the incident.
Stay with NBC10 for more on this developing story.
