The parents of a child who fell from a ninth-story window to his death in a Kansas City apartment complex have filed a lawsuit against the glass company that installed the window.

According to the

, the parents, Destiny Randle and Moses Bass, accuse Crown Diversified Industries Corp. (Crown Window Corp.) of installing a window that “lacked basic fall-protection safety features that would have prevented a child from falling from such a height. These safety measures were well known in the window industry and simple to implement.”

Crown Window is a Missouri-based supplier and installer of windows for hospitality, multi-family housing, senior living and student housing projects.

Randle and Bass’ son, 3-year-old Tidus, fell nine stories from his bedroom window at the Independence Towers on July 29, 2024. Court documents indicate that Tidus had opened a window (a Crystal Series 2300 horizontal sliding window installed by Crown Window in 2015) to cool down as temperatures rose during the hot summer morning. Randle and Bass argue that Tidus was only able to open that window because “it lacked adequate locking mechanisms and other safety features designed to prevent unintended opening.”

Court documents note the window had no fall protection features, such as window opening control devices, window guards and/or limit stops, to prevent Tidus from falling out of the high-rise window. The window featured cam-action sweep locks as its only securing mechanism, a component prone to failure. Tidus subsequently fell through the window’s torn screen to the ground below. He was diagnosed at the scene with numerous fractures, respiratory failure and a pulmonary contusion. He was transferred to Children’s Mercy Hospital, where he died.

Randle and Bass argue in court documents that Crown Window knew, or should have known, that the absence of safety features posed a significant risk of injury or death, particularly to children.

“At the time the product left defendant Crown Window’s control, and at all times thereafter, the subject window was in a defective and unreasonably dangerous condition when put to reasonably anticipated use,” note court documents. “More specifically, the subject window was defective and unreasonably dangerous and/or defendant Crown Window was negligent in distributing, supplying and installing the product…”

Randle and Bass have requested a jury trial.

Randle and Bass, who were charged with first-degree child endangerment following the incident, pleaded guilty in October to second-degree endangering the welfare of a child. Prosecutors argued that they knew about the window’s safety issues yet left their children unsupervised. They received five years of probation, according to Jackson County court records.

Randle and Bass had filed a

against the building owner, former ownership and management groups, along with Crown Window and Crystal Window and Door Systems. That suit was dismissed in August.

In that case, Randle and Bass argued that the building owner and former ownership and management groups failed to repair the apartment’s windows despite multiple complaints. They claimed that management also failed to fix necessities such as hot water, heating and air conditioning, forcing residents to open windows to stay cool during summer, increasing the danger.