An 8-year-old boy died on Thanksgiving Day after a large statue fell on him at a luxury Phoenix resort last week, authorities said.

The statues, called "sprites," are replicas of designs at Wright’s Midway Gardens project. They were installed at the Arizona Biltmore in the 1980s.

An eight-year-old boy is dead after a hotel statue fell on him at a ritzy resort in Arizona, police say.

An 8-year-old boy has died after a statue fell on him outside the luxury Arizona Biltmore hotel, the Phoenix Police Department said. The boy's death was announced Monday, five days after he was struck in the head by the statue and hospitalized. His name was not released.

Phoenix firefighters responded around 9 a.m. that day after receiving reports of an injured child at the hotel located near 24th Street and Camelback Road. The 8-year-old was rushed to the hospital where he later died on Nov.

An unimaginable story out of Arizona, where an 8-year-old boy died after he was crushed by a falling statue at a Phoenix hotel. The statue, one of the famous "sprites" featured at the Arizona Biltmore Resort,