“This is one of the worst things a parent can ever go through,” attorney Natanya Brooks said
NEED TO KNOW
- A two-year-old Georgia girl has died after she drowned at her brother’s swim team event last week, local officials and her parents’ lawyer said
- An attorney for the family of Poppy Pepper told a local outlet that the toddler drowned at a pool in Decatur on Sept. 19
- “Our family has experienced an incredible loss of our beautiful daughter Poppy,” a family member wrote in a GoFundMe post
A two-year-old Georgia girl has died after she drowned at her brother’s swim team event last week, local officials and her parents’ lawyer said.
An attorney for the family of Poppy Pepper told local outlet Atlanta News First that the toddler drowned at Oakhurst pool in Decatur on the afternoon of Friday, Sept. 19. Natanya Brooks, the lawyer, said Pepper attended a kick-off event at the pool with her mom, 8-year old-brother and 3-month-old sister.
The pool was closed to the public that afternoon, Brooks said, and “there was no one else there besides the one family and the three lifeguards” at the time of the incident…