Authorities on Friday identified the 5-year-old boy who drowned this week in a Burnsville apartment complex pool after he was reported missing about a half-mile away.
Boy, 5, reported missing in Burnsville, drowns in pool half-mile away
The child was located in the water Wednesday and died that evening after being reported missing about 40 minutes earlier.
Ilyaas Said was found Wednesday in the pool at the Southwind Village Apartments in the 15000 block of Greenhaven Drive and died that evening at M Health Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville, according to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office.
Officers were called about 5 p.m. Wednesday to the area of Orchard Drive and Cherry Lane about a missing child, said police Capt. Matt Smith.
He said the boy was reported found in the pool at 5:43 p.m. Paramedics tended to the boy before he was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
PAUL WALSH
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