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3-Year-Old Dies After Being Found in Pond Behind Solon Home

Police describe the death as a terrible accident pending a Detective Bureau review.

Overview

  • Officers responded around 1:20 p.m. Saturday after the boy’s 46-year-old father reported him missing from the Capilano Drive residence in the Signature I development.
  • Police searched the property and located the child unresponsive in a pond behind the home within minutes.
  • Officers began life-saving measures, and Solon Fire Medics transported him to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
  • The child’s parents were not home at the time; other adult family members had been supervising the boy, another child, and a baby, and the parents arrived shortly after officers.
  • Police say there is no indication of foul play, the Detective Bureau will review the case, and the department offered condolences, assured no community threat, and asked for privacy.