CHERITON — A 2-year-old boy drowned in a fish pond in the front yard of his home Tuesday.
Lorenzo Jermelle Stith Jr. was found unresponsive in the pond and was transported to Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the Northampton County Sheriff’s Office, which responded to the scene.
Preliminaryreports indicate the toddler was a drowning victim. The incident is still under investigation.
Stith was the son of Tracy Freeman of Columbia, Md. and Lorenzo J. Freeman of Cheriton.
The child’s body was taken to John O. Morris Funeral Home in Nassawadox. Funeral arrangements were pending at press time Thursday.
Northampton Sheriff Jack Robbins declined to release further details of the death.
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