A 5-year-old Colorado girl has died after a backyard accident involving a swing set, authorities said.
Aurora Masters was playing outside her home in Fort Collins last week when she got tangled in a swing, her great aunt told Fox affiliate KDVR-TV.
“She pulled her little plastic slide up to where her swing was and she kind of got tangled up in the swing and the swing strangled her,” Brenda Kennedy said.
Fort Collins Police officers arrived on the scene and rendered aid before EMS arrived and the girl was transported to Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, USA Today and KDVR reported.
Police said she was receiving treatment until she died on May 11.
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The child’s death was an accident and the police will not investigate further, USA Today reported.
A representative for the City of Fort Collins Police Department did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
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Masters’ family has decided to donate her organs, Kennedy wrote in a message on the GoFundMe page.
“We also began to discuss and organize our thoughts for a memorial service and celebration of life,” Kennedy wrote. “The celebration will be for Aurora and her friends to sing, dance and live their best lives! Once that is done, additional funds will be donated to agencies and/or organizations that help keep Aurora’s memory alive.”
Nineteen family members from Wyoming and Nebraska traveled to Colorado after Masters’ accident, according to KDVR.
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Now family and friends are left to mourn the joyful “ray of the sun” who loved to laugh, dress up and hug babies.
“Thank you all for your continued thoughts, prayers and shares for our sweet little girl,” Kennedy wrote in a message on the GoFundMe page, which had raised over $26,000 as of Wednesday, May 15.
She added, referring to the northern lights last weekend: “If you looked up last night, or look up tonight, you will see our Miss Aurora putting on a beautiful borealis show for you.”
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