A 9-year-old Idaho girl has died after falling out of a tree and getting impaled in the head by a steel bar, her family said Friday.
Shaylyn Bergeson was playing in her backyard Monday near the city of Rexburg when she fell, Fremont County Sheriff Len Humphries said. Officers found the girl unconscious under a tree near the family's home after a piece of steel poking out of the ground impaled her. The girl was airlifted a hospital in Utah, where she underwent surgery.
Bergeson said the energetic little girl loved to jump rope and do gymnastics.