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Update/Correction On The Child That Drowned at Hotel Pool

  • Writer: Scioto County Sheriff's Office
    Scioto County Sheriff's Office
  • Jun 6, 2024
  • 1 min read

NEWS RELEASE​​​​​​​

June 6, 2024



Scioto County Sheriff David Thoroughman states that detectives continued the investigation into the drowning of the child at the Quality Inn.  


After following up and speaking with witnesses it was learned that with the names of the two sisters being similar and the dreadful scene that was playing out that the names of the sisters were mixed up.  


The detective learned that the younger sister had fallen into the pool and the older sister, Mackenzie, attempted to pull her out.  Mackenzie was unsuccessful and went under the water as well.  


Sheriff Thoroughman states that this is still an ongoing investigation and anyone with information is asked to call Detective Tackett-Dye at 740-351-1099.

 
 
 

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Hannah Vang
Hannah Vang
2 days ago

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Hannah Vang
Hannah Vang
Jun 18

My heart goes out to the family and the two sisters affected by this tragic incident. I appreciate the sheriff's office taking the time to issue a correction and keep the public informed, since accurate details matter so much in cases like this. Reading through incident reports and witness statements for a case like this also reminds me how much paperwork investigators deal with, and tools like neural network OCR can help turn stacks of scanned documents into searchable text far more accurately than older pattern-matching systems.

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Dec 23, 2025

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