Child drowns in pond at east side apartment complex - 13 WTHR Indianapolis

A child drowned in a retention pond on the east side Tuesday evening.

Officers were dispatched to the Marina Apartments near Post Road and East 21st Street around 5:00 pm on a report of a missing person. A woman woke up from a nap and said her three-year-old niece was missing and the front door was open.

Police went door-to-door, walked around a pond at the apartment complex and dispatched a police helicopter and dogs.

"Someone came knocking at my door and when they came knocking, they ran off," said resident Margaret Crow.

After searching for about an hour, another neighbor gave police the information they needed.

"They said the little girl had on pink, so once I said I saw something pink in the water, he ran down, he asked me to hold his notebook and a picture of the little girl," said Crow.

The officer found the girl 12 feet from the shoreline. She was not breathing.

Emergency crews rushed the girl to Community East Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

The investigation into the girl's drowning is still ongoing. The Marion County Prosecutor's Office will determine if charges will be filed in the girl's death. Police have not yet released the girl's name.