Death of mother, son in Boonton pond ruled accidental
Death of mother, son in Boonton pond ruled accidental The deaths of a mother and her young son in a Boonton park pond have been ruled accidental. After 35-year-old Warda Syed's 6-year-old son was found crying for his mother in her parked car on Feb. 23, police tracked footprints to the edge of the Rockaway River. They discovered the bodies of Syed and her son Uzair Ahmed,11, in the water in the Upper Pond section of the Grace Lord Park. Acting Morris County Prosecutor Robert Carroll said the manner of death was determined by the Morris County Medical Examiner to be accidental and no crimi...