Indiana Conservation officers are investigating a drowning of a child that occurred Sunday on Syracuse Lake in Kosciusko County.
At 4:45 p.m., Kosciusko County Dispatch received a 911 call about a missing 4-year-old in the 800 block of East North Shore Drive in Syracuse.
Syracuse Police Department officers arrived minutes later, removed the child from beneath a pier in 3 feet of water, and began cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The child was transported to Goshen Hospital and pronounced deceased at 6:25 p.m.
Preliminary investigation indicates the child wandered from inside a home the child was visiting. After a brief search of the house, a parent of the child called 911 when the child could not be located. The child was believed to have been last seen 20 minutes before being pulled from the water.
Indiana Conservation Officers have preliminarily categorized the death as accidental.
Other agencies assisting on the scene were Turkey Creek Fire and Emergency Medical Services, Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Office, and Milford Police Department.
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