Knoxville Police are investigating the drowning death of a 71-year-old woman at Inskip Pool.
An officer was in the area August 22nd when he heard voices coming from inside the pool area and found lifeguards giving a woman CPR. The officer reportedly helped until crews with the Knoxville Fire Department and AMR arrived.
The woman, who has not been identified, was taken to the hospital where she died that night.
Officials says the pool was being rented by the Sertoma Center at the time.
The City of Knoxville also provided a statement on what happened:
The City and its Parks and Recreation aquatics team are incredibly saddened by the death of a community member last week following an Aug. 22 private event at Inskip Pool. The City and staff have offered condolences to the woman’s family and to the organization that had rented the pool.
Out of respect for the family’s privacy, the City is not releasing the name of the woman who died or the name of the group that had rented the pool for its private event.
According to witnesses, City lifeguards recognized the woman was in the water and in distress and immediately entered the pool to perform a rescue. They pulled the woman from the water and performed life-saving measures, and the woman was breathing as the ambulance arrived at the scene. Tragically, the woman died later at the hospital. City of Knoxville
