Girl, 4, found unconscious in swimming pool
Published 9:00 pm Friday, May 14, 2004
MARYSVILLE – A 4-year-old girl was taken by helicopter to Children’s Hospital in Seattle Friday after she was found unconscious in a backyard swimming pool.
The girl’s father pulled her out of the water and gave her CPR until firefighters arrived, Marysville Cmdr. Robb Lamoureux said.
“It’s believed she was in the pool three to five minutes,” he said.
When the girl was airlifted from Marysville Middle School, she was unconscious but breathing and had a pulse, Lamoureux said.
The accident was reported at 4:15 p.m. at 7017 Armar Road.
Everett: Police arrest man suspected of rape
Two Snohomish County sheriff’s office sergeants arrested a 25-year-old man on suspicion of rape after they allegedly caught him attacking a 16-year-old girl behind an Everett grocery store.
An Albertsons employee called police shortly after 3 p.m. Friday to report suspicious activity behind the store’s dumpster at 520 128th St. SW.
The two sergeants interrupted an apparent rape, sheriff’s spokeswoman Jan Jorgensen said. The man was booked into the county jail.
Monroe: Kitten was apparently tortured
A kitten found in a bush in the 200 block of W. Hill Street was apparently tortured before it was killed, police said Friday.
Officers found signs at the scene that the kitten had struggled, and the death was intentional, Monroe Police Cmdr. Jan O’Neil said.
City employees found the kitten shortly after 8 a.m. Thursday. Its owner, who lives in the 200 block of N. Blakely Street, told police she’d seen the kitten the previous evening.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Monroe police at 360-794-6300 or the department’s tip line at 360-863-4600.
Mukilteo: House fire damage at $250,000
A Friday fire destroyed a home in the 4700 block of 81st Street SW, according to Mukilteo fire officials. When firefighters arrived at 1:49 p.m., the single-family home was fully involved in flames, Fire Chief Jack Colbath said.
No one was home, and there were no injuries. The cause of the fire wasn’t immediately known but is being investigated by the county fire marshal as suspicious, Colbath said.
The damage estimate was $250,000 and the house is a total loss, Colbath said.
Stanwood: Boy killed when struck by truck
A 9-year-old boy was killed Friday when the motorized scooter he was driving collided with a truck, Snohomish County sheriff’s officials reported.
The accident occurred at 5:40 p.m. in the 16500 block of 78th Avenue NW near Stanwood, sheriff’s spokeswoman Jan Jorgensen said.
Neither the name of the boy nor the female truck driver was available. Both were from Stanwood, Jorgensen said.
The accident is under investigation by the sheriff’s office collision investigation unit.
Herald staff
