GC Police investigating boys near drowning

Garden City, KS(westernkansasnews.com) Saturday Sept. 16 at 4:01 p.m. Garden City police were dispatched to the 600 block of Emerson St. in reference to a 3-year-old male child that had fallen in an above ground swimming pool.

Investigation revealed that several children were playing in the backyard when one of  the children pulled a chair over to the pool making the pool accessible by the child. Family members got the child out of the pool and began CPR and were able to revive him.

The child was transported to St. Catherine’s Hospital. Life-saving efforts continued until the child was stable enough to be flown to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita.

An investigation is ongoing.