A 26-year-old Missouri man is facing criminal charges after he allegedly left his 3-year-old son home alone in his apartment where the child — known to family as “T-3” — wandered into a hallway and fell to his death from an open window on the 11th floor.
Tarvis T. Phenix Jr. was arrested and charged with one count of first-degree endangering the welfare of a child resulting in death in connection with the incident that took place earlier this month in St. Louis, court records show.
According to a probable cause affidavit, officers with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department responded to an apartment in the 4400 block of Forest Park Ave. 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.”…