By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
A toddler died in an apparent drowning in a backyard pool in Bucoda last night.
The preliminary investigation indicates it was a tragic accident, according to Tenino police.
Police and aid responded shortly after 8 p.m. to the home on the 300 block of Nenant Street where a 21-year-old relative who was babysitting had pulled the boy from the water, according to Tenino Police Chief Sean Gallagher.
A police officer started CPR and a a medivac helicopter was asked to respond to the park in Bucoda, he said.
“When the helicopter arrived, it had been 45 minutes, he just never came back, he never responded,” Gallagher said.
According to the chief, the young woman said she had been away from the children only about two minutes when she heard screaming. She found the toddler’s 6-year-old brother struggling to keep the child afloat in the four-foot-high pool, according to the chief.
The 19-month-old child is Landon “Charlie” Lehman, according to Thurston County Coroner Gary Warnock.
A final determination will be made after an autopsy on Thursday, according to Warnock.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Landon Charles Lehman will be missed by so many family and friends..That smile that he had was just the sweetest thing that anyone would see in the town. If i had one wish to have it would be with my baby cousin who died in August of 2010. Its so hard for me to get over this struggling time. but over this time that he has been gone ive learned to love everything and everyone and it going to get better over more time.
I LOVE YOU BABY COUSIN BUT ILL SEE YOU WHEN I GET TO HEAVEN
Dylan is completely correct. It is bullshit! She did nothing to try and help him! She lied to the cops! She was to busy on Myspace to help him after she heard him scream! FUCK YOU CAROLANE!!!!
I miss my baby cousin yo it’s not even funny anymore it’s become bullshitthat she had to let him die like that if I was the cop I would let her do that she should get her kids taken way