2 brothers die in Illinois after falling into freezing pond while visiting their grandmother

Two younger brothers died after they fell into an icy pond whereas visiting their grandmother in a Chicago suburb, authorities and family stated.

Hours after Palatine firefighters pulled the boys from the pond Wednesday afternoon each youths died at native hospitals, police stated. The Cook dinner County Medical Examiner’s workplace recognized the boys as Romalice Brooks, 6, and Ro’Siah Brooks, 4.

Their causes of demise remained underneath investigation Friday morning, stated Johnnie Kearney, an investigator with the health worker’s workplace.

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Family members stated the boys had been brothers. Their mom, Teghan Ivy, stated her sons had been visiting their grandmother along with her Wednesday. Ivy stated she was inside when she heard her sons screaming her identify and appeared to see them struggling within the pond’s icy waters.

Ivy stated she tried to avoid wasting her sons however she additionally fell via the ice and could not attain them.

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“I heard them, ‘Mommy! Mommy!’ And, I got here exterior. I did the one factor I knew to do. I took off my footwear and I received on that ice and tried to get them. I didn’t make it to them,” Ivy informed WLS-TV. “The ice cracked and I fell in, too.”

Each boys had been submerged for almost 20 minutes earlier than rescue divers pulled the unresponsive youths from the pond, the station reported.

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The siblings’ family at the moment are elevating cash for his or her burial via a GoFundMe marketing campaign that has a aim of elevating $15,000.