BEACH TRAGEDY: Little boy found face down in water at Corporation Beach…
DENNIS — DEVELOPING — HN has just learned that the little 4-year-old boy found face down in the water at Corporation Beach this afternoon has passed away…
The following HN video shows the scene and includes two interviews with the two men who tried their best to save the boy, one a 15-year-old young man in training to be an EMT, another a father with three young daughters of his own…
All footage was shot prior to learning the tragic news, but it illustrates the scene and the degree to which strangers rushed to try to save a young life…
The footage also shows Dennis Police Officers comforting and caring for the little boy’s three young sisters… The footage has been edited not to show their faces… The boy’s mother was at the scene and went along with her son in the ambulance to CCH… The little girls remained with officers and were eventually transported to Dennis Police Headquarters.
Please keep this young family in your prayers this evening…
[Press play… Select HD in the settings and enlarge player for best quality…]
The following is the official DPD press statement:
Today, August 28, 2015 at approximately 5:35pm the Dennis Police Department received reports from Corporation Beach (Dennis Village) of a possible drowning. The reports came into the department simultaneously from both a caller on 911 and from Dennis Assistant Animal Control Officer Janet Radziewicz, who was on duty and had been patrolling the beach area when a bystander altered her to a medical emergency. The victim, a four year old boy, had been pulled unresponsive from the water by a bystander at which time ACO Radziewicz and two people who had been at the beach began to administer CPR.
Dennis Fire/Rescue responded to Corporation Beach and transported the victim to Cape Cod Hospital, where he passed away.
Detectives from the Dennis Police Department are investigating the circumstances of the drowning.
8/28/2015
Robert Bastille,
