- July 8, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A 9-year-old girl died Tuesday after being pulled from a Staten Island reservoir.
CBS2’s Dave Carlin spoke with the girl’s devastated mother, Samara Mitchell.
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“She was on a little vacation, enjoying some friends she ain’t seen in a year and a half,” Mitchell said.
Mitchell’s daughter Kyemani died Tuesday afternoon in Staten Island’s Silver Lake Reservoir. A longtime family friend brought the group of kids there.
“I was not there,” Mitchell. said.
“If you had been there?” Carlin asked.
“My daughter wouldn’t have drowned,” Mitchell said.
The kids jumped the three-foot fence surrounding the water. Kyemani got in too deep and her sister, who is only 10 years old, tried to pull her out.
“Her sister was in the water grabbing her, saying, ‘Help me.’ She said she slipped. She had her arm. When she took her arm off, Kyemani…
