Rapper Flo Rida’s 6-year-old son Zohar Dillard is in critical condition after he fell from a fifth floor apartment window in New Jersey.
The incident occurred on March 4. Now the child’s mother, Alexis Adams, is suing the apartment complex’s owners and managers, a construction company, a window installer, and others, The Daily Mail reported.
Adams said in a statement: “As a single mom to a special needs child, this feels like a nightmare. My heart is broken into a million pieces. I am devastated, angry and struggling to come to terms with the fact that my only child has suffered severe injuries due to willful negligence of our landlord and others involved In failing to take necessary safety measures.”
The lawsuit alleges that the building complex engaged in “negligent, willful and wanton acts” by putting the wrong-sized guards on the windows. This led to her son falling and suffering serious injuries which will make him disabled in the future and unable “to perform his usual functions.”
Zohar had multiple fractures, a liver laceration, internal bleeding, and collapsed lungs from the fall, the publication noted.
Flo Rida, whose real name is Tramar Lacel Dillard, addressed the incident via Instagram. He began by thanking those who sent him their “concerns and prayers” on Instagram.
“He is getting the best medical care and miraculously survived a tragic fall. I ask for your continued prayers as he undergoes rehabilitation,” Flo Rida wrote on his Instagram story Thursday. “I would appreciate that this remain a private matter.”
He had previously denied being the father until a DNA test proved that he was.
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“Flo Rida has only seen his son once during the paternity test but kept his shades on and his back turned,” Adams told The Daily Mail during a 2018 interview. “They were in the same room. He didn’t try to hug Zohar, nothing. It was very cold,” she asserted.
The recording artist does provide financial support for the child, but Adams had expressed to The Daily Mail that the amount wasn’t enough to cover their son’s medical bills. Zohar was born with hydrocephalus, an incurable condition that involves extra fluid putting pressure on the brain, which often leads to brain damage.