Blog Posts in January, 2012

Boy Drowns at Hotel Pool

Reece Mitchell, 4, of Midland, Texas, was found at the bottom of the MCM Grandé Hotel FunDome pool in Odessa recently while surrounded by numerous other guests and accompanied by siblings and adult aunt, reports say. One of the boy's siblings noticed him at the bottom of the pool and pulled him out, reports say. CPR was performed on Reece and Emergency Services was summoned. The youngster was ...

Six-Year-Old Child Dies in Pool Accident

A southern Indiana Holiday Inn hotel was the site of a drowning that ultimately took the life of six-year-old Ron-Deja Lynn Stevenson recently, reports say. The young girl, who actually died the next day at Kosair Children's Hospital, was at the Holiday Inn Lakeview in Clarksville for a party she attended with family members. As it ended, a group was headed back to their hotel room when they ...

Boy Drowns in Hotel Pool

An Embassy Suites Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama was the site of a hotel pool drowning when an 8-year-old Birmingham slipped into the water and died, reports say. The boy drowned Saturday night, said today that the pool area had signs warning that there are no lifeguards on duty and that it is swim at your own risk. The boy, identified as Arlue Carl Patterson IV, 8, of Birmingham, was not listed as ...

High School Student Drowns in Hotel Pool

Shauna-Kaye Williams, 16 of Newark, New Jersey, was identified as a Hotel drowning victim in a Long Beach, California Courtyard by Marriott swimming pool. Williams, 16, was found unconscious at the Courtyard Marriott pool in downtown Long Beach on a recent evening where she and other students had made the trip from Newark, New Jersey, for a high school First Robotics Competition, also known as ...

Man Drowns at Radisson Hotel

Reports say a 26-year-old died while using the Radisson hotel pool in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Jacob Lars Parish, a local resident who was a member of the Kalamazoo Athletic Club, a club that used the Radisson as its base gym and pool facility, was not a guest but was using the workout facilities. Reports say the hotel drowning accident occurred when Kalamazoo Emergency Services was called to the ...

Second Body Found Drowned in Creek

A creek in North Dakota claimed the lives of two men, reported as drowning victims, recently. Police were initially called to the Apple Creek Country Club, a private country club, where two men were last reported canoeing. Police searched for several days before discovering the body of both men Cory Berger and James Hellman, both of Bismarck, were found dead and have been assumed drowned in Apple ...

Girl Drowns in Crowded Pool

Joanie Logan, 3, of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, died earlier this summer when she drown in a private club pool while hundreds of people swam and sunbathed nearby. The pool accident occurred on Memorial Day weekend, at a private club in an area called the Main Line at St. Albans pool. The girl's parents were at the pool and lost sight of their daughter for just moments, reports say. The girl ...

Child Drowns in Country Club Pool

A six-year-old child drowned in a Louisville, Kentucky area country club pool earlier this summer after rescuers found him unresponsive and half-submerged in the water. Keegan Adkins reportedly died after being taken off life support the day following the accident at the Woodhaven Country Club. Reports say the boy died from a severe brain injury resulting from being submerged under water. Reports ...

Nine-year-Old Drowns in Club Swimming Pool

A nine-year-old drowned in a Kenner, Louisiana swimming pool recently after heavy rains closed the facility and the staff had been sent home, reports say. Zaven Sears and a friend had ridden their bikes to the locked Driftwood Park Country Club pool about a mile away from their homes and evidently climbed a 16-foot fence to get in. The pool was supposed to be open that day from noon to 9 p.m. but ...

Teen Drowns on Camping Trip

A 16-year-old Tennessee boy died while on a white-water rafting trip with other teens attending a popular Georgia camp recently. Andrew Silvershein, 16 of Davie, Tenn, was on the Ocoee River in southeastern Tennessee when the raft he and six other teens were on flipped in a part of the river rated as Class 3+ on a scale of 1 to 5. The other six teens made it to shore safely. But Silvershein did ...