Williamstown NJ Drowning

PRESS RELEASE
June 18, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bernie Weisenfeld- PIO

A 1 ½ year-old boy drowned in an in-ground swimming pool at 124 Hemlock Drive in the Forest Hills section of Williamstown NJ this morning (6/18), The drowning is believed to be accidental.

A 911 call was placed from the home at 11:11 a.m. after a teenage uncle of the child spotted him through a window of the home, floating in the pool. A family friend administered CPR to the child until emergency medical workers arrived. The boy, Kanye Wright, was transported to Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Washington Township NJ and was pronounced dead there at 12:15 p.m.

According to an investigation by the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office, the boy and his father, Waydale Wright, who reside in Glassboro, were at the Williamstown home of the boy’s grandmother. Kanye’s mother was at work. Waydale Wright was in the front yard, working on a vehicle he planned to sell. The grandmother had asked the boy’s two teenage uncles, ages 14 and 16, to look after him while she showered. Interviews indicated each uncle believed the other was watching Kanye. Apparently the boy left the house and made his way to the fenced pool, where the gate had been left open.