By Liz Shepherd
InkFreeNews

LEESBURG — An 11-year-old girl who drowned in a pool at a Leesburg home is improving but still in ICU.

Just before 8:45 p.m. Friday, July 14, emergency personnel responded to a residence on Raintree Road for a drowning report.

According to Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Sergeant Doug Light, the child was swimming in a pool with a sibling when, for an unknown reason, she jumped into the water and did not surface.

The girl was flown to Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne.

As of Monday, July 17, the girl’s condition is improving. Medical staff did not give a specific classification on the girl’s condition.

Gift cards for gas and food for the child’s family, as well as cards of encouragement, can be dropped off at Combined Community Services from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, July 17; Tuesday, July 18; and Thursday, July 20.