Out of Tragedy, Comes Further Tragedy

A story of a couple's narrow survival from the bridge collapse has turned turned from triumph to tragedy:

Recently, Michael Stoner and his fiancée, Crystal Manning, appeared on television to tell their harrowing tale of plunging to the Mississippi River in their car after the I-35W bridge collapsed.

The couple spoke of how they had been on their way to Children's Hospital in Minneapolis to see the fiancée's 2-year-old daughter -- whom, they had told everybody, had fallen down stairs earlier in the day at their home near Spooner, Wis.

But on Monday evening, Stoner, a 26-year-old felon, was being held on suspicion of felony child abuse and a probation violation.

Authorities say 2-year-old Emmaline Manning is in grave condition with brain injuries consistent with shaken-baby syndrome.

"She was downgraded from critical to grave today," Washburn County District Attorney Michael Bitney said Monday evening.

Bitney added: "She's on life support. We don't know if she'll survive the week."