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2-year-old girl dies at hospital 2 days after drowning at Table Rock Lake

MSHP said they do not know the circumstances of how she entered the water.
Credit: Missouri State Highway Patrol
Missouri State Highway Patrol

STONE COUNTY, Mo. — A 2-year-old girl from Ozark, Missouri, has died Wednesday after a drowning incident earlier this week in Table Rock Lake. 

According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol drowning incident report, the girl went into the water at around 6:30 p.m. Monday and drowned 7 miles north of Blue Eye, Missouri, in Table Rock Lake. 

She was taken to the Mercy Hospital Pediatric Care Unit in Kansas City, Missouri, where she was pronounced dead around 5:15 Wednesday morning. 

MSHP said they do not know the circumstances of how she entered the water. She was reportedly not wearing a personal flotation device at the time.

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