Child Dies When Bounce House Becomes Airborne At MD Baseball Game

CHARLES COUNTY, MD — A child died and another was injured Friday night when a bounce house they were in flew into a field at a Southern Maryland Blue Crabs baseball game, officials said.

Charles County 911 received a call from the Regency Furniture Stadium shortly before 9:30 p.m. when a moon bounce house "became airborne due to a wind gust," officials said in a news release. The gust carried the bounce house approximately 15-20 feet in the air, causing children inside it to fall before it landed on a playing field.

Charles County EMS personnel stationed at the game immediately responded and rendered aid to the children, officials said.

Maryland State Police took a 5-year-old boy from La Plata to the hospital, where he later died, officials said.

A second child who suffered non-life-threatening injuries was also flown by helicopter to the hospital.

"Our entire organization shares our condolences with the family mourning the loss of a child and concern for the child who was injured," Courtney Knichel, general manager of the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs, said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with them all."

The team canceled all games and activities for Saturday, Knichel said.