5-year-old boy dies after being found unresponsive in pond
This story has been updated to include the name and age of the child.
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A child has died after being found unresponsive in a pond Monday night on the city’s west side, Indianapolis police say.
The Marion County Coroner’s Office identified the child as 5-year-old Roby Chacreton.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and Wayne Township medics were called about 6:30 p.m. Monday to the 7200 block of Causeway Drive. That’s in the Astoria Park Apartments.
A notification from IMPD says officers were initially sent on a report of a missing child. Officers found the boy in a pond, rescued him, and began CPR.
Indianapolis EMS took Chacreton to a hospital, IMPD says, where they were pronounced dead.
No additional information was immediately available.