Second child in last week's Bradley County swimming pool tragedy dies

Isabella "Bella" Marie Lombardi, 7, passed away at T.C. Thompson Children's Hospital, according to the Bradley County Sheriff's Office.
Isabella "Bella" Marie Lombardi, 7, passed away at T.C. Thompson Children's Hospital, according to the Bradley County Sheriff's Office.
photo Isabella "Bella" Marie Lombardi, 7, passed away at T.C. Thompson Children's Hospital, according to the Bradley County Sheriff's Office.

The second child pulled from a swimming pool last week in Bradley County has died, the Bradley County Sheriff's Office said in a tweet.

Isabella "Bella" Marie Lombardi, 7, passed away at T.C. Thompson Children's Hospital, according to the Twitter post just moments ago.

Lt. James Bradford, spokesman for the Bradley County Sheriff's Office, confirmed the 7-year-old's death.

Bella's family is arranging with the Children's Hospital to donate her organs, according to the Bradley County Sheriff's Office.

"They want 'Bella' to be remembered as a child that helped save another child's life," BCSO spokesman Lt. James E. Bradford Jr. said in a news release.

Bella's 10-year-old brother, Michael Vincent Thomas Lombardi, known as Mikey, died Nov. 18 at the same hospital.

Both children were found unconscious in a residential swimming pool on Georgetown Road near their school, Hopewell Elementary, on Nov. 16.

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