STAFFORD, Va. — A child found in a Stafford retention pond drowned Monday afternoon.
The 11-year-old boy was found by a passerby who was walking in the area of Snow Drive Landmark Road off U.S. 1 about 4:47 p.m. The passerby pulled the child from the pond and performed CPR on him until emergency crews arrived on scene and took over, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
The child was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The victim, who was autistic, went missing from his home Monday afternoon and is thought to have wandered into the retention pond, said Kennedy.
