Boy, 7, Dies In Long Island Swimming Pool: Police

BAY SHORE, NY — A child died in a residential swimming pool in Bay Shore over the weekend, Suffolk County police said.

Kyrie Berry, 7, of Brooklyn, was pulled unresponsive from a swimming pool in Bay Shore on Saturday, police said.

Third Precinct officers responded to a residence on N. Thompson Drive after a 911 caller reported that a boy was pulled from a swimming pool at around 8:25 p.m., police said.

Berry was transported to South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore where he was pronounced dead, police said.

Anyone with information about the incident may call the Homicide Squad at 631-852-6392.

The devastating death follows in a line of pool-related tragedies this summer, iclduing the July 5 death of a Brooklyn man in a Wyandanch pool. Before that, a toddler died from drowning in an Islandia pool and there have been other close calls, including a toddler hospitalized after being pulled unresponsive from a Central Islip pool and an adult male found unconscious in a North Babylon pool.