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NBC10’s Matt DeLucia reports on the death of a boy who was pulled from Philadelphia’s Tacony Creek Sunday.
A little boy pulled from the Tacony Creek in Northeast Philadelphia died Sunday evening.
Police officers responded to reports of an unresponsive child in the water near the 1100 block of East Wyoming Avenue in the Crescentville neighborhood around 6:10 p.m., police said.
Medics responded and the child was pronounced dead at about an hour later at Saint Christopher's Hospital for Children.
At this time there is no further information about how the little boy came to be in the water.
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The investigation continued through the night.
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