Citizens in the area performed CPR on the boy until first responders arrived Wednesday, April 7, 2021.
8:55 am, Apr. 8, 2021
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STEWARTVILLE -- An 18-month-old boy is in a medically induced coma after falling into a retention pond Wednesday afternoon.
First responders were called about 4:10 p.m. to the 700 block of Willow Green Court Northeast for a report of an 18-month-old boy who had fallen into a retention pond. The child was being watched by a family friend at the time of the incident.
The woman reported that she was outside with the boy and her own 18-month-old child when she "looked away for a couple of seconds," Olmsted County Sheriff's Capt. Scott Behrns said. The woman thought the child may have run around the house and checked the front yard, but did not find him. The woman then called the child's parent who was already on the way to the residence.