And while that was Friday in the city, another small child drowned on Saturday in the Burrell Boom Area – and in this case police believe it was accidental. Five year old David Alexander Cruz was unaccompanied when he fell into a pond near his house and drowned. But while he was not being supervised near a body of water, as we found out there is a reason why that was the case: Mom was fending off a bush-fire.
Jules Vasquez reporting
On Saturday afternoon at about 3:00, a bush fire was encircling the Cruz family home off the Burrell Boom Road. The mother of three, 25 year old Raquel Carcamo was trying to fight the fire and keep it away from the house, when she called in her children who were eating coconuts about 200 feet away, near this putrid looking pond 200 feet from the home. But five year old David Alexander Cruz stayed back.
Jose Tobar - Uncle of Deceased
"The problem was that the baby David gave him the life jacket that he had and then they went. His sisters and my little brother didn't conscious that he stayed at the back so when they were looking for him they realize they couldn't find him. His sister Giselle went to the pond and she saw a hand in the water that's when they called her mother and told them that her brother was in the pond."
His uncle theorizes that maybe he was sitting on this pier where the children are known to play.
Jose Tobar
"The only thing that they do is they sit on the pier and play with the water but they never jump in there because there are alligators in there. I don't know what happened if he stayed at the back and jumped and slipped and was an accident."
He ended up beneath the murky depths and his passing has caused his family endless grief:
Jose Tobar
"Well actually it's an accident because its the only boy that his mother has and she loves him and he was the man of the house."
Police have not yet released the results of his post Morten which was conducted today.
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