THE heartbreaking final photograph of a happy toddler shows him playing with a horse just minutes before he was crushed to death by a fireplace.
Carter Walsh, two, was rushed to hospital with serious injuries on Wednesday afternoon after the marble fireplace fell on him in a freak accident.But disaster struck as they were dancing in the living room when the fireplace collapsed - after its bottom section "snapped" - and crushed him.
Speaking for the first time, his heartbroken mum Samantha Walsh, 38, today said of her boy: "He was my best friend. Less than half an hour later after playing with the horses, the marble fireplace collapsed on him as he danced with his cousin in the living room. Samantha said: "She was very calm at first and she just said 'You need to come home, Carter has banged his head.'"I was waiting for a taxi, and I was on my way home, and then I just kept ringing her. And every time I rang her, I could tell it was serious."They let me see him, and then they said, 'Right, we need to get him to hospital'."
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