A 3-year-old boy dies after falling from an apartment window while his father briefly stepped outside to smoke.

A three- time-old boy fell to his d£ ath from an apartment window in Missouri while his father stepped outdoors to bank a cigarette, a relative said.

Travis Jr- who was popularly called T3- fell out of a high- rise window at Parkview Apartments in St. Louis around 2.30 am on Friday, April 10, according to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police.

He was staying with his father, who has not been named, while the little boy's mama was recovering in the sanitarium from a leg amputation, Terance Hardy, a relative of the boy, said in a GoFundMe fundraiser.

The toddler was put to bed by his father just before he went outdoors for a bank break, Hardy told KSDK.

When T3's father returned, he could not find his son and started to horrify.

" He went down the hall searching, knocking on people's doors. He could not find him, and that is when they firstly allowed he was missing," Hardy said.

Officers also arrived at the structure in response to a missing child report, where they discovered the boy's body outside the structure.

It remains unclear exactly which window he fell out of, but some neighbors claimed it was from the 11th bottom, the outlet reported.

It is n't known if he fell from an apartment or hallway window, but according to Andrea Armour, T3's great- aunt, the windows in the hallway are always open.

" These hallway windows, they stay open, they do n’t lock, there’s no screen, none of that," Armour told WOWT, adding that the tragedy happed at her apartment structure.

" It was my apartment, I was not at home. It was my apartment, where they were at. They were visiting me," she explained.

Although she was n't home, Armour said T3's father had a spare key to her place, and he constantly checks in on her because of her health problems.

She added that she has reported safety enterprises about her apartment to structure operation in the history, though the specific complaints are unclear.

The incident is being delved by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s Child Abuse Unit.

The St. Louis Housing Authority is also conducting a separate disquisition, including reviewing surveillance footage from that morning and examining windows.

A prophet with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department told DailyMail that no charges are set to be filed right now as the disquisition is ongoing.

According to Hardy, T3's mama , Diamond Hamilton, is presently in recovery after gun violence caused her leg to be reattached. The circumstance of her firing were unclear.

" For the history 2- 3 times, she has been in and out of recuperation," Hardy, Hamilton's kinsman, wrote.

" She's presently in recovery dealing with internal( and) emotional stress, and this has made her situation indeed worse!"

During her recovery, T3's father's family had stepped in to help look after him, Hardy explained.

He said she has two other children to take care of as well.

The grieving mama has taken to Facebook to partake her painful loss, writing on Sunday" I supplicated I supplicated I supplicated and asked god every night too( sic) cover my kiddies for me If I was down from y' all."

Family members gathered for a balloon release outside the apartment structure in memory of T3.

Just a vibrant little thing. I just want people to flash back utmost how intelligent he was for a 3- time-
old," Hardy said. “ Just a ball of life. ”