KOSCIUSKO CO. – Indiana Conservation Officers are investigating the drowning of a child that occurred yesterday 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. The child was transported to Goshen Hospital and pronounced deceased at 6:25 p.m.
Preliminary investigation indicates that the child wandered away from inside a home where they were visiting. After a brief search of the house, a parent 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, the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Office, and the Milford Police Department.
