COLUMBUS, Ohio — A toddler has died after being pulled from a retention pond at a southeast Columbus apartment complex on Friday.
Columbus Division of Fire Battalion Chief Jeff Geitter said rescue crews were called to the 4500 block of Lakeside North for a possible drowning around 4 p.m.
Divers went into the pond just after 4:20 p.m. The toddler was pulled from the pond at 4:27 p.m. and taken to Nationwide Children's Hospital in critical condition. Columbus police said the child was pronounced dead at the hospital around 5 p.m.
Geitter did not provide an exact age, but said the toddler was less than 2 years old.
10TV has followed three other drowning incidents since 2011 at this retention pond. In 2011, two people died, including a 4 year old, after a car drove into the pond. .
A 5-year-old boy drowned after falling into the icy pond in the winter of 2013.
In 2019, a man and an 11 year old died after a car of five went into the water.