Witnesses told police that Sargent had been dancing on a couch or air mattress near an open window when she went through the window screen and fell.
A 21-year-old University of Georgia student is recovering in intensive care after falling from an eighth-floor window at an off-campus apartment complex in Athens, Georgia. Kristin Sargent, a senior studying finance and marketing at the university, survived the fall and is speaking with family and friends as she recovers from multiple injuries, New York Post reported.
According to an Athens-Clarke County Police Department report obtained by PEOPLE, officers were called to the Rambler Athens apartment complex on West Broad Street at around 7:30 pm on Saturday, September 26, after receiving a report that a student had fallen from an eighth-floor window.