A teenage boy who was unresponsive when he was pulled from the water Monday at Centennial Quarry in Sylvania Township has died, authorities said.
Pedro Salinas, 15, was taken in cardiac arrest to University of Toledo Medical Center, the former Medical College of Ohio Hospital, where he later died, Dr. Diane Scala-Barnett, Lucas County coroner, said.
The boy’s death comes just weeks after he was released from the Lucas County Youth Treatment Center, where he was serving a sentence after he admitted in juvenile court to dropping a sandbag from an I-75 overpass and killing a motorist in December, 2017.
He and three other youths dropped multiple sandbags that night from a construction site on the Indiana Avenue overpass. The Salinas youth dropped the bag that struck a car and killed passenger Marquise Byrd, of Warren, Mich., who was 22 years old.
A Lucas County juvenile court judge on June 19 released him and another of the boys from the Lucas County Youth Treatment Center to a group home, to prepare for a transition back into society.
He was to be on GPS monitoring, and regular review hearings were to determine next steps.
On Monday, the boy jumped off a solid platform at the quarry and did not resurface; a scuba diver, who happened to be nearby, then found him submerged in 20 feet of water, Dr. Barnett said.
Township police said medical personnel arrived at Centennial Quarry at about 4:50 p.m. and took over resuscitation efforts after lifeguards pulled the boy out of water and attempted CPR before transporting him to the hospital, where he died.
The quarry is a popular swimming spot open to members of the public. It features several diving boards and diving platforms, rafts, and other recreational amenities.
First Published July 1, 2019, 9:38 p.m.
