STOUGHTON — A child had a medical incident and died at the Dana Barros Basketball Club in Stoughton Tuesday night, Chief Donna McNamara of Stoughton Police said in a written statement.
“This is a horrific tragedy and our hearts go out to the friends and family of this young boy,” said McNamara said.
Boston25NEWS is reporting that the child was an 11-year-old Brockton resident and that he was playing basketball when he collapsed.
McNamara said dispatchers received multiple 911 calls reporting an unresponsive child at around 8 p.m. Tuesday.
While police and fire were en route, dispatchers from the Holbrook Regional Emergency Communications Center provided emergency medical dispatch instructions over the phone “to help facilitate a private citizen doing CPR until police arrived,” she said.
Once Stoughton Police arrived they took over medical care and continued to provide CPR and other measures, she said. Stoughton Police continued those efforts until Stoughton Fire paramedics arrived and took over medical care.
The child was then transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The death will be investigated as an unattended death, per standard procedure, but it does not appear to be suspicious, McNamara said.
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Statement from basketball club
The club posted on Instagram that it would be closed Wednesday “due to the devastating loss of one of our beloved members last night.”
The club is working with the schools on coordinating grief counnseling.
