Missing 2-year-old dies after officers find him in a Charlotte pond, police say
A death investigation is underway after a 2-year-old boy was found “submerged” in a pond in north Charlotte on Tuesday night, police said.
The boy’s mother reported him missing from their home in the 5400 block of Tumbling Brook Lane at 7:55 p.m., Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said in a news release. Google Maps shows a retention pond in the Trinity at Northlake subdivision off Reames Road.
Officers found the child about an hour later in a nearby pond, the release said. He died at a hospital.
The toddler’s official cause of death has not been released.
This story was originally published July 20, 2022 at 1:29 PM.
Jonathan Limehouse
The Charlotte Observer