Story Published:
May 5, 2008 at 10:26 AM CDT
Story Updated:
May 5, 2008 at 10:27 AM CDT
ERBIE, Ark., -- A 7-year-old boy drowned in the Buffalo River while canoeing on Sunday afternoon. The National Park Service says Will Davenport was with his mother and a friend below Erbie when their canoe hit a rock and capsized.
The canoe got pinned under a tree and the boy was trapped. Other canoeists called the Newton County Sheriff’s Department.
Emergency responders used a chainsaw to free the canoe. A ranger and a sheriff’s deputy used CPR to try to revive Will. A ground ambulance and a medical helicopter took him to the hospital in Harrison but doctors were not able to save him.
