Crime & Safety

4-Year-Old Boy Drowns in Backyard Swimming Pool

A 4-year-old boy drowned in his family's backyard swimming pool, according to report.

A 4-year-old boy drowned in his family's swimming pool, according to a report by the San Jose Mercury News.

The boy on Thursday afternoon briefly wandered from his mother's view, according to the report. The mother minutes later found her child at the bottom of her backyard swimming pool.

Further details in the San Jose Mercury News report:

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The woman pulled the boy from the pool, and was on the phone with dispatchers who were helping her through CPR efforts when police arrived...Emergency responders attempted CPR at the scene, then took the boy to Valley Care Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead from the drowning.

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