Father Holding Baby Girl Falls 118 Feet to Their Deaths—Witnesses Had Tried to Help
On 4/22/21 at 10:57 AM EDT
A dad fell 118 feet to his death at an Australian tourist attraction while he held onto his 9-month-old daughter in a suspected murder-suicide, according to police.
Emergency services raced to the Whispering Wall tourist attraction in South Australia's Barossa Valley on Wednesday afternoon after they were alerted by witnesses.
When they arrived at 4:30 p.m. officers and paramedics found 38-year-old Henry Shepherdson had died and his 9-month-old daughter Kobi had suffered serious injuries.
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Police performed CPR on Kobi, but were unable to save her life. Investigators later said the 118-foot fall was a suspected murder-suicide.