Delaware State Police troopers are investigating an apparent drowning at a local mobile home park.
Officers were called to the Kentwood Estates mobile home park at about 4 p.m. July 3, after the woman’s body had been pulled from a retention pond at the park, said police spokesman Sgt. Walter Newton. The woman’s boyfriend performed CPR until the arrival of paramedics, Newton said, but she was pronounced dead after being taken to Bayhealth-Kent General Hospital.
The woman was identified as Ella Lawson, 46, of the 400 block of Phoenix Drive, in the mobile home park.
Witnesses told police they saw Lawson walking near the retention pond before her boyfriend discovered her in the water. There were no signs of foul play, Newton said.
