Crime & Safety
Child, 1, Drowns At Indoor Home Pool In Bannockburn: Coroner
The child was taken to a local hospital after being found Monday afternoon unconscious and not breathing
BANNOCKBURN, IL — The name of a child who drowned in a residential indoor pool Monday afternoon has been released. An autopsy for Noah Probst, 1 year and 10 months, of Peotone, was conducted Tuesday by the Lake County Coroner's Office, with results indicating his death was consistent with drowning.
At around 2 p.m. Monday, the Deerfield-Bannockburn Fire Protection District and Bannockburn Police Department responded to the 1900 block of Half Day Road for a report of a drowning in a residential indoor pool. Emergency crews arrived and began trying to resuscitate the child, who had been pulled from the pool, and who was unconscious and not breathing.
The child was taken to Endeavor Health Highland Park Hospital, where despite care and treatment, was pronounced dead in the emergency room.
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The Bannockburn Police Department continues to investigate the incident, but foul play is not suspected.
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