Woman critically injured after fall from D.C. apartment building

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D.C. police are investigating how a woman fell from a Northwest Washington apartment building with her legs bound Thursday night.

Accident or crime scene cordon tape, police line do not cross. It is nighttime, emergency lights of police cars flashing blue, red and white in the background. A woman was critically injured Thursday when she fell from an apartment of a Northwest Washington high rise with her legs bound, according to a D.C. police commander.

Witnesses called 911 as they tried to help the woman after the fall in the 4500 block of Connecticut Avenue north of Van Ness just after 7 p.m., D.C. Police Cmdr. Duncan Bedlion said in a news conference at the scene. The victim was taken to a hospital and is in critical condition, he said.

 

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phscoop Shouldn’t this say, pushed?

I feel like you should lead with the fact that her legs were bound

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