STUDENT TRIES TO JUMP INTO POOL FROM APARTMENT ROOF AND MISSES

A Colorado State University student jumped from the roof of a Fort Collins apartment complex Saturday

afternoon and landed on the concrete before his body rolled into the pool.

"The stupid child" Ian Smith is in critical condition after videos taken from camera phones show him jumping from the roof during an afternoon pool party.

His brother says Ian has broken ankles, broken heels and multiple broken vertebrae in his lower back.

"Ugh, it definitely made me sick," Brittany Polliard, who witnessed the jump, said.

She saw a "pool of blood" after Smith's jump.

Another witness, Jared Roberts who lives in the building that Smith

climbed said he heard people screaming and when he looked up, he saw Smith standing on the roof.

He says he turned away to avoid seeing the jump, but he heard Smith hitting the pavement.

"You could hear him hit it, and just kinda rolled into the pool," said Roberts.

Witnesses say some people were urging Smith not to jump, though some were encouraging him.

It was also said that people were drinking and lounging by the pool, obviously Smith must have been drinking too.

Paramedics who took a view of the height from where he jumped said he was lucky to be alive, the student was helped out of the pool, and firefighters confirmed an ambulance took him to Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland.