BETHALTO, Ill. (AP) — The coroner in Madison County says a 5-year-old boy found under water in a Bethalto back yard swimming pool apparently drowned.
Coroner Stephen P. Nonn says Chance M. Shewmake was pronounced dead about 8:30 p.m. Saturday at Alton Memorial Hospital. Nonn says officers found the boy in the pool after his mother called authorities when she couldn’t locate him. A Monday autopsy found the boy’s preliminary cause of death is drowning.
The Southern Illinois Child Death Task Force is investigating.
Bethalto is about 25 miles northeast of St. Louis.
