The heartbroken parents of 14-year-old Toshaye Pope are breaking their silence and demanding answers nearly two weeks after their son drowned during an outing with the Ellet High School football team.
AKRON, Ohio — The heartbroken parents of 14-year-old Toshaye Pope are breaking their silence and demanding answers nearly two weeks after their son drowned during an outing with the Ellet High School football team at Melanie Lake in Springfield Township.
"His laugh brightened up like the whole day," Victoria Washington said."It's hard. The family is not the same. The house, the atmosphere is not the same."He was a rising freshman at Akron Early College High School, which doesn't have sports. He was eligible to play for Ellet's football team. He had been practicing with the team for several months, his parents said.
Jeremy Caudill, a managing partner at the lake, said the employees who provided aid to the teen were certified lifeguards. Two of them performed CPR until paramedics arrived and the lifeguards got a pulse, Caudill said.His parents couldn't understand why Toshaye was in a lake, because he couldn't swim.
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