FORT WORTH, Texas _ An 11-year-old boy died on Monday night after being accidentally impaled by an iron fence, according to the Fort Worth Police Department.
Officers say that several minors climbed a fence at Ladera Palms Apartments, in the 2300 block of Baroque Drive in southeast Fort Worth, to get into a locked pool area.
When they were told to leave by security, they scattered by trying to climb a fence.
One of the boys possibly lost his footing and was accidentally impaled by the iron fence, Officer Bradley Perez said.
He was taken to the hospital in grave condition and died at 8:05 p.m., Perez said.
The boy has not yet been publicly identified and no other information was immediately available.
