In a dramatic rescue, a New York man saved a 7-year-old who fell from a third story window and lived to tell the tale because a good Samaritan caught her! SEE VIDEO
The girl, who is autistic, was seen dancing on the air conditioning unit outside the Coney Island Houses in Brooklyn before suddenly plunging to the ground.
Her terrifying fall was broken by Steven St. Bernard, a neighbor in the building who saw her falling and ran towards her to help her. It was captured on tape by another person with their cell phone.
"Please let me catch her, please let me catch her, that's all I could say. Let me catch the little baby, that's all," he told WABC-TV.
"She did hit the bushes and the ground a little, but not straight on because of his arms," witness Latasha Marcus described the drama.
"It feels good now to know that I did something," St. Bernard said.
He was wearing a sling for the torn tendon in his left shoulder, but Keyla escaped without harm.
"I saw her in the hospital," St. Bernard, 52, said. "She doesn't have a scratch."
Police have said that they do not believe her parents did anything criminal but had fialed to install window guards which may have prevented the near-tragedy. Steven St. Bernard is being hailed a hero for helping for helping Keyla.
Humbled, St. Bernard said, "No. A hero is a sandwich. I just saw a kid, that's it."
