Foul play is not suspected in the death of a missing 7-year-old boy pulled from a retention pond Wednesday evening, police in northwest Lake in the Hills said.
Officers responded shortly before 6 p.m. to a report of a missing child in the 300 block of Steeplechase Way, according to the Village of Lake in the Hills Police Department. Family members told police they had seen the child a short time earlier.
While searching for the child, an officer found the boy unresponsive in a nearby retention pond, pulled the child from the water and began life-saving efforts, police said.
Paramedics from the Huntley Fire Protection District arrived within minutes and continued efforts to save the child before taking him to Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital, where the child was pronounced dead. Police declined to release his name.
The child’s death is being investigated by Lake in the Hills police and the McHenry County coroner’s office. The coroner’s office said the cause of death was drowning.
Foul play was not suspected, police said.
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