Miller Place Woman Drowned in Pool

By Timothy Bolger Posted on July 27, 2016

A 54-year-old woman drowned in the pool in the backyard of her Miller Place home on Tuesday night, Suffolk County police said.

A family member found Erin Attard unresponsive in the semi-in-ground pool at 8 p.m., police said.

She was taken to John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson, where she died.

Homicide Squad detectives are continuing the investigation but believe the incident is non-criminal.

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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.