Sorority girl who plunged six stories and survived was dancing to Miley Cyrus song before horror, as new footage reveals moment she fell out of window
A sorority girl who plunged six stories from an apartment building and survived was dancing to a Miley Cyrus song before her horror fall, new footage revealed.
Kristin Sargent, 21, plunged about 70 feet after falling through an open window of her eighth-floor, five-bedroom apartment in Athens, Georgia on September 26.
The University of Georgia senior had been dancing on a couch with friends just moments before she fell, her roommate told police in newly released body camera footage.
‘We were dancing and we were singing The Climb by Miley Cyrus,’ her shocked roommate recalled. ‘We had our glass up but the screen was down, and she was dancing and fell backward.’
She added that Sargent ‘might have been drinking a beer’ when she fell.
Sargent was rushed to a nearby hospital with an open femur fracture and a bleeding chest wound, police said.
Footage recorded in the emergency room captured Sargent, whom a hospital administrator described as ‘drunk,’ telling paramedics and officers: ‘Nobody did anything bad to me.’
Investigators believe Sargent may have been so intoxicated that she failed to brace herself as she fell, which could have helped contribute to her survival.
They also believe she may have landed on a cushioned metal bench, potentially lessening the impact of the fall.
Kristin Sargent, pictured, was dancing to a Miley Cyrus song when she fell through an open window at her Athens, Georgia apartment, her roommate claimed
The moment she fell from the window was captured on camera
First responders found the 21-year-old lying on the ground beside a metal pool chair with one of its armrests broken off. There was also blood on the chair’s cushion
Footage recorded in the emergency room captured Sargent, whom a hospital administrator described as ‘drunk,’ telling paramedics and officers: ‘Nobody did anything bad to me’
Sargent and her friends were hanging out in the apartment after the school’s football team, the Georgia Bulldogs, beat the Oklahoma Sooners earlier that day.
The 21-year-old had been drinking at a bar during the game, a friend told police.
Officers rushed to the complex around 7.30pm after a friend called 911 with absolute terror in her voice.
‘We’re on the eighth floor; my friend just fell out of the window on the eighth floor,’ the woman said, according to audio obtained by the Daily Mail.
‘We were dancing, and she just fell out of the window,’ she told the operator.
‘I’m looking down at her on the eighth floor. She’s not moving,’ the woman added, before telling the dispatcher that her brother and a friend ran down to the second-floor pool deck after Sargent fell.
When asked how Sargent was doing after the plunge, her friend confirmed that she was breathing, her eyes were open, and that she was responsive, the call detailed.
First responders found Sargent lying on the ground beside a metal pool chair with one of its armrests broken off. There was also blood on the chair’s cushion.
A paramedic was heard telling Sargent, ‘it’s going to be alright,’ while another said ‘we’ve gotta bring a backboard’
Sargent’s terrified roommate, describing the details of her horrific fall to police at the hospital, said: ‘We were dancing and we were singing The Climb by Miley Cyrus. We had our glass up but the screen was down, and she was dancing and fell backward’
One friend, when interviewed by officers at the apartment complex, described how Sargent was ‘dancing around’ on the couch when she suddenly ‘just fell out’ the window
‘It’s going to be alright. It’s going to be alright, Kristin,’ one first responder told her as she was lying on the ground, the new body camera footage showed.
Another could be heard saying, ‘we’ve gotta bring a backboard.’
Officers conducted interviews with Sargent’s friends and roommates at the complex and the hospital.
One described how she was ‘dancing around’ on the couch when she suddenly ‘just fell out’ the window.
‘I thought I was coming down here to see her dead,’ another said.
One witness described her survival as remarkable, telling police: ‘I would die if I fell from that. She’s just a beast. We were all like, if anyone’s gonna come back from this, it’s Kristin.’
The 21-year-old’s current condition is unknown. However, last month she was being treated in the intensive care unit for multiple injuries.
In an interview with WSB-TV shortly after the incident, her father, Richard Sargent, said she was awake and talking.
He said Sargent understood how fortunate she was to have survived, despite suffering multiple broken bones.
Sargent is studying finance and marketing at the University of Georgia. She is also a member of the Kappa Delta sorority
Sargent and her friends were hanging out in her eighth-floor apartment before she fell. She had been drinking before the incident
Just seconds after she flew out of the window, Sargent’s friend called 911 with absolute terror in her voice. The pool deck (pictured) is located on the second floor of the building
‘She was talking to one of her friends and saying, “Hey, I’m alive. I can’t believe it”,’ he recalled, adding that she was a ‘fighter.’
Kristin Sargent is studying finance and marketing at the University of Georgia.
She works for Capital One in McLean, Virginia, as an incoming full-time business analyst, according to her LinkedIn.
She started the hybrid role in September after working as a business analyst intern for the company.
Sargent is also a member of the Kappa Delta sorority at the University of Georgia, her Instagram bio shows.
