The toddler who drowned Tuesday night in Spanaway Lake was identified Wednesday as 1-year-old Anthony Shutt.
The boy’s 9-year-old brother found him in the water about 7:15 p.m. and screamed for help. A neighbor in a rowboat began CPR on the boy until paramedics arrived and took him to St. Clare Hospital in Lakewood, where he died an hour later.
The drowning happened after the toddler went out the back door of his house in the 17100 block of Sixth Avenue Court South and into the nearby lake, Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said.
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