ELEVEN YEAR-OLD DROWNS IN FRIEND'S POOL IN LONG ISLAND

From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx; Queens Accident Lawyer)

On Thursday June 17, three 11 year-old boys celebrated early dismissal from Bay Shore Middle School. They went to one of the boys' homes to swim, even though no adults were home and they did not have permission to use the backyard swimming pool.

At the pool, on Delay Lane in Bay Shore, Long Island, New York,11 year-old Tre-Zon P'Lindor lost his life in a drowning accident in the pool.

Suffolk County police say the boy was found at the bottom of the Bay Shore pool at 1:00 PM Thursday. Police say he was pulled out by his friend who called his older brother to help revive him and call 911.

Tre-Zon was declared dead at the hospital.

The older brother of the 11 year-old whose home it was had warned the boys not to swim, because no parents were at home.

Comment:I'm getting tired of accidental pool-drowning stories. Pool owners, please gate off and lock your pools; though it is likely that boys of this age could easily have climbed a small fence.