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St. Joseph, , police have ruled a hotel hot tub drowning of a three-year-old boy and accident, as indicated from a recent autopsy performed on the boy. The death of Parker James Wilson, who died earlier this month that occurred while Parker was visiting St. Joseph’s Ramada Inn Monkey Cove Water Park with his grandparents and siblings, The accident occurred while the grandfather was watching two other children at a water slide . When he noticed that Parker had slid…

A member of Mission High School’s 2010 Academic Athletic Association championship boys’ basketball team, Stafone Jackson, 20, died on a camping trip of an apparent drowning earlier this month. Reports say that a swim with his friends was more difficult than it appeared and about halfway back, Jackson began yelling for help and quickly sank before his friends could get to him. Jackson, who was entering his second year at UC Riverside, was at the Union Valley Reservoir in North…

Search teams recently found the body of a man who had been feared drowned in Dalewood Lake, near Meridian, Miss. Charles “Chip” Fleming, 42, of Kemper County, disappeared underwater early in the week while swimming with friends who were aboard a pontoon boat. Fleming was not wearing a life jacket. His body was recovered the following evening after a search that had to be suspended at times because of stormy weather. The Doan Law Firm P.C. has extensive experience in…

Just three weeks after a child nearly drowned at a South Carolina water park, another child was also rescued. Rescuers were called to Otter Creek Waterpark earlier this month after a two-year-old girl was found floating in the pool. The child, who was at the pool with a caregiver and a group of other children, was briefly left alone and the girl ran off to play in the shallow end of the pool with other kids. She went underwater and…

Eight-year-old Jesus Lara noticed a toddler in the water in his Plano apartment and assumed somebody trying to see how long they could go under water without breathing. But then he saw the bubbles stop rising and could immediately tell the toddler was not breathing. Although there were adults around the pool, none were in the water; a party was going on. He took a deep breath, went under water, retrieved him and yelled for his father. The toddler’s skin…