Two teenagers were left with severe injuries after falling through a wall and plummeting 30 feet while jumping on a bed in a bizarre freak accident. The two teen girls, aged 14 and 17, were standing on a bed leaning against a wall when it suddenly caved in.
The Incident
Teddrianah Thomas, 14, suffered a broken neck and was hospitalized in Memphis, Tennessee, following the severe fall, her mother, Lequisha Lashawn, told the Daily Mail. Lashawn said her daughter was at her friend's house on Tuesday afternoon when the shocking sequence of events unfolded. When she received a phone call about her daughter's fall, she had no idea how significant the damage was.
'I'm thinking, it's just a wall in the house. But when we got there - it was totally different,' Lashawn recalled. The two teens were playing around when the wall caved. Lashawn said the girls 'instantly fell 30 feet down.'
Teddrianah fell on her friend, Lanaija King, 17, who broke her back. Lashawn said her daughter, shockingly, got to her feet after the horrific fall. 'Doctors can't believe she got up - she should've been paralyzed,' the mother added.
Hospitalization and Recovery
An ambulance was called, and the girls were rushed to the hospital. Teddrianah and Lanaija are recovering at Le Bonheur Children's in downtown Memphis. Teddrianah is in the Intensive Care Unit and is scheduled for her second surgery on Friday. Lashawn said her daughter's neck was shattered. The teen also lost feeling on her right side and has scratches on her body from tree branches.
'It traumatized her,' Lashawn said. 'She's hurting a lot,' the concerned mother added.
Property Concerns
Lashawn said she believed the house was built with poor sheetrock and caved in after it got wet from the rain. 'I don't understand how a landlord would rent this property,' she added. Lashawn said the home on Sampson Avenue in Dyersburg, a suburb of Memphis, was owned by George Darden. Property records confirm that Darden purchased the property in 2023. The Daily Mail has reached out to him for comment.
