1-Year-Old Boy Drowns in Lake Michigan, Woman Is Now in Police Custody

A woman in Chicago is in custody after police allege she drowned a young child in a lake.

On Friday, July 18, at around 9:45 p.m. local time, police found the 31-year-old woman — whose identity has not yet been made public — in Lake Michigan near South Shore Beach, according to WOOD-TV, ABC 7 and WGN-TV. 

An investigation indicated that the woman had allegedly drowned a 1-year-old boy in the lake, the outlets reported.

The woman was taken into custody and transported to a hospital, according to WOOD-TV. 

The Chicago Fire Department’s Marine Unit recovered the body of the boy. He was then taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, per WGN-TV. 

The investigation remains ongoing. It is unclear what led to the incident. 

PEOPLE reached out to the Chicago Police Department for information, but did not immediately receive a response on Sunday, July 20.

The identity of the baby has yet to be released, but a law enforcement source told WGN-TV that the child and the woman were related. 

Authorities have yet to announce the charges against the woman, but the case has been classified as a homicide, per WGN-TV. 

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Street Pastor Donovan Price, who visited the hospital after hearing of the incident, told WGN-TV, “The more I heard, the more tragic it got, the sadder it got.”