Six year-old boy drowns in Minnesota hotel swimming pool

June 24, 2022

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. (KFGO) – Police say a 6-year-old boy has died after he was pulled from the pool at the Holiday Inn in Alexandria, Minnesota earlier this month.

He is identified as Japheth Peng. A release from the police department did not say where Peng from from.

Police and other first responders were called on June 11th to a report of a possible drowning. The boy was out of the pool when they arrived and bystanders were doing CPR.

He was in critical condition when he was rushed to a local hospital by amublance.