Overview
- Officers and firefighters responded just before 8:30 a.m. Wednesday to a home in the 1000 block of East Greenwood Avenue after a report of an unresponsive juvenile in a hot tub.
- Crown Point Fire Department crews performed life-saving measures and the girl was taken to Franciscan Health Crown Point, where she was later pronounced dead.
- The Crown Point Police Department has opened an investigation and has not released the girl’s identity or announced a cause or manner of death.
- Local outlets report the case as developing and say public accounts so far rely on initial statements from police and fire personnel.
- Officials are expected to seek medical examiner testing such as an autopsy and toxicology and investigators will likely conduct witness interviews to determine how she died, a process that could take days.