The Gloucester
County Prosecutor's Office has confirmed a 5-year-old boy drowned in a swimming
pool on Hampshire Drive in Deptford Township.
He was discovered
in the in-ground pool Monday around 5:30 p.m., the prosecutor's office says.
Efforts were made
to revive him. The child was taken by ambulance to Cooper University Hospital
in Camden, but he did not survive.
Authorities say the
child was connected to the household but not a resident. They say the death appears to be a tragic accident.