Tot Drowned in Shirley Pool, Cops Say

By Timothy Bolger Posted on June 15, 2015

A four-year-old boy drowned in a swimming pool during a backyard barbeque in Shirley over the weekend, Suffolk County police said.

Justin McConville was with his mother at his mother’s friend’s Alcolade Drive East home when the host found the boy at the bottom of their 4-foot, above-ground pool at 7:11 p.m. Saturday, police said.

Witnesses pulled the victim from the pool, called 911 and performed CPR until an ambulance arrived, police said.

The child was taken to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center in East Patchogue, where he was pronounced dead.

Homicide Squad detectives are continuing the investigation.

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Timothy Bolger

Timothy Bolger is the Editor in Chief of the Long Island Press who’s been working to uncover unreported stories since shortly after it launched in 2003. When he’s not editing, getting hassled by The Man or fielding cold calls to the newsroom, he covers crime, general interest and political news in addition to reporting longer, sometimes investigative features. He won’t be happy until everyone is as pissed off as he is about how screwed up Lawn Guyland is.