A Silverthorne Police Department report about the death of a 1-year-old boy July 22 provided accounts from three officers who responded to the incident.
All three officers responded around 2:50 p.m. to a call about a missing child. Zeldris Milo Maes, 1, of Arvada, went missing from the Willow Grove Open Space about five minutes before the call and was found in the Blue River about two hours later.
The first officer in the report canvassed the bike path and river bank north of the open space until hearing over the radio that rescuers had found Zeldris Maes in the river about a mile downstream of the open space and brought him to the bank. The officer went to where EMS workers were administering lifesaving efforts, including CPR, to Zeldris Maes around 5 p.m. The first officer stated that the coroner called Zeldris Maes’ time of death at 5:08 p.m…