New body camera footage reveals details of UGA student’s fall from apartment window

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A University of Georgia senior was dancing with friends before she fell from her eighth-floor apartment window in September, a roommate told police in recently obtained body-camera footage.

The Details

Apartment security camera video captured Kristin Sargent falling, with the window screen following her.

The fall happened during Georgia-Oklahoma weekend, when several friends were staying at Sargent’s five-person apartment at the Rambler Athens building.

In newly released police body camera footage, a roommate said Sargent had been at a bar during the game.

“We were dancing and we were singing ‘The Climb’ by Miley Cyrus,” the roommate said in the footage. “We had our glass up but the screen was down, and she was dancing and fell backward.”

Sargent was taken to a hospital with multiple injuries. A police officer said she had an open femur fracture and blood coming from a wound in her chest.

First responders said Sargent may have landed on a cushioned metal bench, which may have softened the impact.

A hospital administrator later described Sargent as “drunk.” A police officer said her condition might have contributed to her body not bracing as she fell.

“We all were like, ‘If anyone was going to come back from this, it’s Kristin,’” another roommate said in the police body camera footage.

Atlanta News First reached out to Sargent, her father and her four roommates for an update on her condition, but did not get a response.

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