She was found Tuesday afternoon in the sixth-floor hallway, and investigators said they followed a trail of what they believed to be the girl's vomit toward the neighbor's door.

In a sixth-floor hallway a few buildings away, a man lay sprawled in the dim afternoon light.

He hit Ms. Jenkins, slammed her against the elevator wall and punched through a window in the sixth-floor hallway, Mr. Tellado said.

He passed Shirrin in the sixth-floor hallway, and almost stopped to talk to her.

Detective Edward Gilliam of the Dallas police said that Mr. Huynh was waiting in a sixth-floor hallway when his wife arrived.

The photographs can be found on the stairs between the fifth and sixth floors and in the sixth-floor hallway.

All day long, passing riders can hear the shouts of the children in the sixth-floor hallways outside the courtrooms, and as the afternoon drags on, their wails of boredom.

A neighbor and another resident of the apartment who had been in the sixth-floor hallway suffered minor injuries, fire officials said.

Ms. Newall said she ran into the building to try to reach the family but could not get through the thick smoke in the sixth-floor hallway.

It was hotter here in the building than it was on the street outside, all of yesterday's heat contained in this narrow sixth-floor hallway just under the roof.