File photo: Suffolk County police car
An elderly woman drowned in a backyard pool on Long Island on Thursday, according to police.
Not many details regarding the drowning incident were immediately available. Officers responding to a 911 call found Kihee Kim, 94, unresponsive in the backyard pool on Kingston Road in Mount Sinai just before 8 p.m., Suffolk County Police said.
Kim had been staying at the home with a relative. She was taken to John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson, where she was pronounced dead.
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WATCH HEREThe circumstances surrounding the drowning were not immediately clear. Detectives with th Suffolk County Homicide Squad are investigating.
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