NORTHBROOK, Ill. (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A 4-year-old boy died Monday evening after being pulled from a retention pond near an apartment complex in Northbrook.
Tengis Burenkhuu, 4, was found unresponsive in the 1700 block of Providence Way, near an apartment building in the Mission Hills Country Club neighborhood in the northern suburb.
The Cook County medical examiner’s determined the boy died by drowning and ruled his death an accident.
A witness told WGN-TV that a neighbor found the child in the water. A nurse performed life-saving measures before he was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The Cook County sheriff’s office is conducting a death investigation.
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