A 22-year-old man from Yonkers visiting Ocean County drowned Saturday afternoon during a swim with friends, according to the office of County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato.
Family of a two-year-old girl thought the child was watching television until noticing a back sliding glass door open. They found the toddler floating in the swimming pool of a home on Buccaneer Lane in Stafford Township around 4:22 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office.
A Lakewood eight-year-old is in stable condition after coming horrifyingly close to drowning in a pool at a private home Sunday, but a probe of the circumstances is not yet concluded.
The summer heat hasn’t let up, but the rate of fatal drowning has significantly fallen off from early in the season when lifeguards weren’t on duty.