Oakland County Boy Dies In Pool After Wandering From Home: Police

ORION TOWNSHIP, MI — A 5-year-old Orion Township boy with special needs was found dead Saturday in a neighbor's pool hours after wandering from his home, the Oakland County Sheriff's Office said.

Officials believe the child used a ladder on the pool to climb into the above-ground pool roughly two hours after wandering from his home on the 1100 block of Devon Street in Orion Township, the sheriff's office said.

The boy was found on the pool's cover, which had at-least one foot of standing water on it, officials said.

Officials performed CPR as the boy was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died, the sheriff's office said.

The child's grandfather told police he last saw the boy, who had tried to leave the home before, around 3:30 p.m. when he found the home's rear door open, officials said.

The boy left the home wearing jeans and a sweatshirt but no jacket, officials said. Temperatures at the time were around 37 degrees.

Authorities searched the area for roughly two hours before finding the boy in the neighbor's pool on Crestmont Drive, roughly one block away from the child's home, officials said.

Investigators were still working to determine the boy's cause of death, officials said.