No Foul Play Suspected In Drowning Death Of Danvers 4-Year-Old

DANVERS, MA — Investigators do not suspect foul play in Sunday's drowning death of a 4-year-old Danvers girl, according to the Essex County District Attorney's Office.

The girl, whose name is not being released because she is a child, was reported missing at 12:16 p.m. Sunday after she wandered off from an apartment complex on River Drive in Danvers. She was found unresponsive at the Crane River after a search.

The police officer who found the girl started CPR. CPR continued as the Danvers fire department and Atlantic ambulance transported her to Beverly Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

"The Danvers Police Department would like to extend out our deepest condolences to her family," Danvers police said in a statement. "They will be in our thoughts and prayers."

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