"On Sept. 21, Cortez "CJ" Williams, Jr. of St. Louis was playing on a backyard swing set when the set fell apart and he became trapped under a cross bar, according to a press release from the St. Louis County Police Department. Family members freed CJ, who initially appeared to have suffered only minor injuries. Later, he became unresponsive and was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead, the release said."
""My daughter called me, FaceTimed me, crying, and I knew something was wrong," the grieving father recalled. CJ appeared fine after the accident, and asked family members for food and water, KSDK News reported. "They just kept saying he wanted to go to sleep," Williams told the station. "He wasn't bleeding ... He just had a little scratch on his stomach.""
""He was a joyful kid," said Williams, who added that his son could make anybody "smile and laugh and love." CJ's death is the second time Williams has lost a child. In 2018, his oldest son was killed in a shooting. "I had to bury him and now I've got to bury my 8-year-old," he said."
On Sept. 21, Cortez "CJ" Williams Jr., 8, was playing on a backyard swing set in St. Louis when the structure fell apart and trapped him under a cross bar. Family members freed him and he initially appeared to have only minor injuries, asking for food and water and later taking a nap. An hour later he became unresponsive and was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His father described receiving a frantic FaceTime call and said CJ was a joyful child. The father previously lost another son to a 2018 shooting and urged parents to take even small playground accidents seriously.
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