June 25, 2025 – Youth Services detectives are following up on the apparent accidental drowning of five-year-old Tobias Henock who died Tuesday night after going underwater for several minutes while swimming with family in Percy Priest Lake at Hamilton Creek Park off Bell Road.
Hermitage Precinct officers responded to the drowning call at 6:52 p.m. Family members were performing CPR. Officers took over until Nashville Fire Department personnel arrived. Tobias was transported to Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital where he died.
Officers were told that Tobias had been missing for several minutes before he was found in the water by his father.
Source: MNPD
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