MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A 10-year-old boy who fell through thin ice into a frigid West Tennessee pond is being released from a Memphis hospital.
The Commercial Appeal reported the father of Reece Wagner of Bartlett told a reporter the boy has made a full recovery at LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center after falling through the ice Jan. 7.
Aaron Wagner said doctors were releasing his son on Friday.
Reece was underwater for an estimated 20 minutes after he fell into a small pond behind a subdivision.
The boy told the newspaper from his hospital room Thursday he doesn’t remember much about the incident that occurred as he and some friends played on the ice during a snow day when schools were closed.