Girl, 5, Drowned in Islip Pool

By Timothy Bolger Posted on July 20, 2015

A 5-year-old girl fatally drowned in a backyard pool in Islip over the weekend, Suffolk County police said.

Third Precinct officers responded to a 911 call reporting a child being found unresponsive in a pool at a Columbine Avenue home at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, police said.

The child, Carissa Walker, was taken to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore. where she 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.