8-Year-Old Boy, 2 Adult Relatives Drown In SC Pool

An 8-year-old boy and an aunt and uncle have drowned in a swimming pool in western South Carolina. Multiple media outlets reported the adults jumped into the pool at a horse farm near Easley to try to rescue the boy Monday afternoon.

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Published: July 1, 2009

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EASLEY, S.C. (AP) - An 8-year-old boy and an aunt and uncle have drowned in a swimming pool in western South Carolina.

Multiple media outlets reported the adults jumped into the pool at a horse farm near Easley to try to rescue the boy Monday afternoon.

Pickens County Coroner Kandy Kelley says the victims were 37-year-old Arnulfo Tomas Francisco, 27-year-old Maria Nicholus Juan and 8-year-old Eric Sebastian, all of Greenville.

Assistant Sheriff Tim Morgan says the couple’s 7-year-old son saw his parents go under the water. He’s been placed with a relative.

Kelley says Francisco was an employee of the horse boarding business at the farm and had permission to use the pool. Morgan says the property owner discovered the bodies about 5 p.m.

Kelley says autopsies were planned Tuesday.