15-month-old toddler found by family dies in Bradenton pool drowning
A 15-month-old toddler staying with his family at a vacation rental home died in a Bradenton drowning incident on Wednesday.
Bradenton Police officers said that the drowning happened at 4:15 p.m. at a home in the 2800 block of 23rd Avenue W. A family member found the child unresponsive in a residential pool and pulled him out of the water. The family was visiting from Arkansas.
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Despite life-saving measures by EMS responders and Blake Hospital doctors, the child died shortly after 5 p.m.
The drowning appears to be accidental, police officials said, but an investigation is still ongoing.
This article originally appeared on Sarasota Herald-Tribune: 15-month-old toddler found by family dies in Bradenton pool drowning
