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Samantha Hayes and Lance Bandley Reporting If you have little children, you know how quickly they can get away from you, sometimes in just seconds. That's what happened when two-year olds wandered away from a parent, their curiosity drawing them to the stream.
Their street backs up to running path near the Lagoon amusement park and Farmington creek. It's a place you would want to raise your family; and many couples there are raising young children, including the woman who lives next door-
Alysa Revell has never seen Farmington Creek look like this.
Alysa Revell, Next door neighbor: "But usually it's only a couple of inches deep. It's not a fast moving river, just a little, tiny creek. Sometimes it even dries up."
And if only it was already summer and the creek was dry, things would have been different when two two-year old boys wandered down to its banks. One of them was swept away and found face down.
At this point as police continue their investigation. It's unknown the time frame in which this happened.
Alysa Revell: "I have two two-year old boys at my house. And just to think a parent is going through losing a child and being a neighbor as well. It's devastating and heartbreaking."
And it's hard to imagine something so horrible happening in such a beautiful place The family's yard backs up to a pasture where horses graze and the river runs through. It's probably even a selling point when they moved in just a couple of months ago.
Police say the little boy is in the neonatal care unit at Primary Children's Hospital. Investigators have not yet released their report.
