A Bradley County father was charged Monday in the drowning death of his 2-year-old son in a Sept. 25 incident on Burnt Ridge Drive in Charleston, Tennessee.
Bradley County authorities arrested David Gene Carroll Jr., 40, of Charleston, on charges of aggravated child neglect and criminally negligent homicide, according to Bradley County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Paul Allen. The charges were issued in an indictment from the Bradley County grand jury.
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Bradley County Jail records show Carroll was additionally charged with violation of probation stemming from an unrelated case. He is being held on a $35,000 bond.
The Sept. 25 call came after neighbors discovered the unresponsive child in their pool, according to a news release on the charges. After hours of lifesaving efforts, the child was declared deceased by medical professionals, the release said. It was unknown how long the child was in the water.
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Burnt Ridge Drive is a dead-end road in North Bradley County in a lightly populated, wooded area off of Curtis Drive west of Interstate 75.
— Compiled by Ben Benton