3-year-old drowns in backyard pool
Child was at family 4th of July party
Click to Watch Video
Click to Watch Video
Photographer: WMAR
Copyright 2012 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Posted: 07/04/2012
BROOKLYN PARK, Md. (WMAR) - A Brooklyn park family is mourning the death of a three-year-old who drowned at a Fourth of July gathering Wednesday night.
Fire officials say they received a 911 call around 9:45 Wednesday night for reports of a child who had possibly drowned.
A preliminary investigation found that a 3-year-old boy was attending a family party when family members realized he was missing. The boy's father found him at the bottom of a backyard swimming pool.
The child was taken to Harbor Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 10:25pm.
Police are investigating the circumstances of the incident.
Copyright 2012 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
PRINT
| |
Special Reports
-
SPECIAL REPORT | Day care inspections
SPECIAL REPORT | Thousands of child care center inspections reports are NOW AVAILABLE. Find out what inspectors founds inside day care centers across the state.
-
Inside a Criminal Mind | Jason Scott
SPECIAL REPORT | When it's out of your hands, when your life is at the mercy of an armed, masked man staring down at you from the barrel of a gun in your own home, you grasp at whatever it is you can control; breathing, composure, or faith.
-
SPECIAL REPORT | Bad Medicine
SPECIAL REPORT | ABC2 Investigator Joce Sterman has reviewed thousands of pages of documents for her Bad Medicine report.
More Anne Arundel County News
-
Obama to speak at USNA graduation
President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak at the U.S. Naval Academy's graduation. -
Woman dies after being rescued
-
Fire breaks out at pizza shop
-
Man drowns after falling off boat
-
Attempted break-ins have some on edge
-
Give your running a lift
- Stay Connected
