YORK, Pa. (AP) â A toddler died at a hospital after he was found in a storm water tunnel near his Pennsylvania home on Easter Sunday, authorities said.
The York County coroner s office identified the victim as 2-year-old Kamdyn Torres of the borough of North York.
Officials said he reportedly wandered away from his home Sunday evening, and his family âquickly noticed and reported him missing.
Northern York County Regional Police said officers, volunteers and canine units began a search, and two hours later a volunteer found the child in a storm water tunnel that runs along a nearby avenue. Police said he was unresponsive âmore than 300 feet from the entrance.
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It s been more than 12 years since Northern Regional Officer David Tome was fatally run down along Route 15 by a distracted driver who was speeding, applying makeup and using her cellphone. She was doing everything but paying attention to the road, said Tome s mother, Karen Reever. All I have is pictures. A piece of my heart is missing also, because of a distracted driver.
Reever and her husband, David Reever Tome s stepfather joined with Northern York County Regional Police, PennDOT and the Center for Traffic Safety on Tuesday morning for a news conference about changes to Pennsylvania s steer clear law, which will soon be replaced with an enhanced version with stiffer fines and penalties.
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Update:
York County Coroner Pam Gay released the name of the toddler who drowned on Sunday as Kamdyn Torres, 2.
Kamdyn would have turned 3 on Friday.
His cause and manner of death are pending additional investigation, according to Gay.
Previous report:
A nearly two-hour search for a missing 2-year-old boy concluded Sunday in North York when the boy was found unresponsive in a storm water tunnel, according to Northern York County Regional Police.
First responders administered live-saving measures to the child, but he was pronounced dead at York Hospital that night, police said.
This was the second drowning of a child in York County within the past two weeks. The first was the death of an 11-year-old boy who drowned in the Codorus Creek in Jackson Township on March 25.
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