KOSCIUSKO CO. – Indiana Conservation Officers are investigating the drowning of a child that occurred yesterday on Syracuse Lake in Kosciusko County.

At 4:45 p.m., Kosciusko County Dispatch received a 911 call about a missing 4-year-old in the 800 block of East North Shore Drive in Syracuse.

Syracuse Police Department officers arrived minutes later, removed the child from beneath a pier in 3 feet of water, and began cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The child was transported to Goshen Hospital and pronounced deceased at 6:25 p.m.

Preliminary investigation indicates that the child wandered away from inside a home where they were visiting. After a brief search of the house, a parent called 911 when the child could not be located. The child was believed to have been last seen 20 minutes befo

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