Officers responded to a residence in East Meadow on 2nd Avenue just before 4 p.m. Thursday, July 4, after a report of a 7-year-old boy who was not breathing from an apparent drowning accident in a swimming pool, Nassau County Police said.
When officers arrived, the boy was already removed from the pool, and CPR was being administered.
The boy was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was later pronounced dead by a physician.
The identity of the child has not yet been released.
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The investigation is ongoing.
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