Chino High scholar who died after pool accident was at soccer staff party, police report discloses

A Chino High School scholar who died June 30 after being pulled from the varsity swimming pool two days earlier had been collaborating in a soccer staff swim party, in line with a Chino Police Department report launched Thursday, July 18.

The reason for loss of life for Jason Phan, 14, of Ontario, has not been introduced. He was an incoming freshman at Chino High.

The incident report was supplied to the Southern California News Group in response to a California Public Records Act request. It contained new particulars surrounding the circumstances of Phan’s loss of life that the Chino Valley Unified School District continued to withhold Friday.

According to the report, somebody known as 911 at 2:31 p.m. to report that a youngster had drowned and was not respiratory. When officers arrived, they noticed a coach giving CPR to Phan on the pool deck. An officer took over CPR till paramedics arrived. Chaplains had been known as to the varsity.

Phan was taken to Chino Valley Medical Center, the place he regained a pulse, earlier than being transferred to Children’s Hospital of Orange County, the report mentioned.

Investigators spoke with witnesses, together with two faculty district workers, the report mentioned.

“It was found that the juveniles had assembled on the pool to take part in an exercise that included incoming freshman (sic) who had attended the summer season soccer camp,” the report mentioned. “The sufferer, together with a couple of different college students, had been within the deep finish of the pool, when a witness seen the sufferer on the backside of the pool and summoned assist. Witnesses pulled the sufferer to the floor.”

School district spokeswoman Andi Johnston has declined to explain the occasion going down on the pool or reply most different questions, citing the district investigation. She supplied no timeline for the completion of the probe.

Johnston agreed to search for a duplicate of any kind {that a} soccer staff consultant might have stuffed out to order the pool, however a number of days later, that request remained unfulfilled. Nor did Johnston reply to a request made Thursday for particulars about whether or not lifeguards had been required to be current and in that case, what number of had been on the pool on the time.