2-Year-Old Girl Dies After Steel Wall Falls on Her at Illinois Mall Store

On Tuesday, Alexandra “Alexa” Martinez was with her grandmother and aunt when she and four other related children decided to play around in Orland Square Mall’s Akira clothing store,WGN 9reported.

That’s when a temporary wall in the shoe department fell down on top of her.

“It appears that two temporarily steel walls, approximately 8 feet high and 3 feet wide, somehow fell over upon the victim,” Orland Park Police Chief Tim McCarthy told WGN 9.

“The temporary wall dividers weighed between 75 and 100 pounds each,” he added.

Martinez briefly regained a pulse before she was transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center where she was pronounced dead, according to the newspaper.

“I think everything that could have been done was done under the circumstances,” McCarthy toldWXYZDetroit.

Orland Park Police did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

Akira also did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

The store remains closed following the incident, theChicago Tribunereported.

An investigation into the incident is ongoing.

source: people.com