Update: Monday 8:50 p.m.
A girl has died from a drowning accident at the Aransas Pass Aquatic Center.
Police tell us the call came in around 2:30 p.m. on Monday.
Aransas Pass Police Chief Eric Blanchard said the girl was younger than 10 years old and not from Aransas Pass. Blanchard said the girl fell in the water and was noticed to be unresponsive or in distress.
Police don't know if the girl was unable to swim, but she was pulled out of the pool.
He said at least two lifeguards pulled the girl from the water, with her family along side. The lifeguards then began performing CPR. First responders were en route to a car crash when this call came in.
“Good thing is we already had an ambulance coming this way, we had both of our ambulance coming for the crash. One of them immediately broke off from that and immediately came over here,” Blanchard said.
Blanchard said other life saving measures were taken when emergency services arrived. The decision was made not to use Halo Flight and just get moving towards a hospital.
“I've got a detective assigned to actually do an investigation. Now, we don’t believe there’s any criminal wrong doing, but because it’s at the city pool, we do a thorough investigation on the situation, to try to gather all the facts early on,” he said.
The pool was closed for the day after the incident.
Blanchard said no other information would be released at this time.
Update: Monday 6:45 p.m.
A girl has died from a drowning accident at the Aransas Pass Aquatic Center.
Police tell us the call came in around 2:30 p.m. on Monday.
Aransas Pass Police Chief Eric Blanchard said there were reports that the girl, around 10 or 11 years old, was walking along the edge of the pool when she fell in.
Police don't know if the girl was unable to swim, but she was pulled out of the pool.
Lifeguards were first to respond followed by EMS who transported her to the hospital.
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