Shoreline mother remembers 4-year-old daughter who died after falling from apartment

A Shoreline mother is remembering her daughter who died after falling from an apartment window.

INVESTIGATION:

The incident happened last Sunday at Echo Lake Apartments on North 192nd Street in Shoreline.

“I went around the back after I heard someone screaming,” said Andre Alexander, who witnessed the aftermath. “When I went back there, I seen the young lady, the little girl had fell out the window.”

“There’s a young man who’s a real hero. This young man did over four and a half minutes of CPR by himself,” Alexander said, describing a man who tried to save the little girl’s life.

MOTHER:

KIRO 7 News spoke with Najaha Chancellor about her daughter’s death.

Chancellor said she was watching her four young children by herself from her bathroom, which is connected to the bedroom.

She said one of her kids opened the bedroom window.

Four-year-old Mi’layah was jumping on the bed near the window.

“She bumped into… the screen fell off and she went down, and I completely lost it,” she said.

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