Pictures of the five-year-old “dinosaur lover” youngster who tragically lost his life after the bounce house he was playing in was carried twenty feet into the air by high winds and then tossed into a baseball park.
At around 9:12 p.m. on Friday, in Waldorf, Charles County, a Southern Maryland Blue Crabs game was interrupted when a children’s inflatable crashed onto the field.
Unexpectedly, a gust of wind lifted the bounce house from its intended location for children’s amusement at Regency Furniture Stadium and deposited it on the pitch in the middle of the game.
Trainers and medical staff, in addition to local emergency services, were already stationed at the game, so they could get to the location immediately.
Declan Hicks, a 5-year-old boy from La Plata, was taken to a children’s hospital by a state police aircraft,