State officials are investigating the death of a toddler in the care of a foster family under the supervision of the Department for Children and Families.
Gov. Phil Scott announced Thursday that two-and-a-half-year-old Alexander Lowell-Henry died Wednesday night at UVM Medical Center in Burlington, after being found unresponsive in a foster family's pool in East Montpelier late Wednesday morning.
According to a news release from Vermont State Police, paramedics brought Lowell-Henry to the University of Vermont Health Network鈥檚 Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin.
鈥淥nce at CVMC, the team of doctors, nurses and rescue personnel were able to establish a heart beat,鈥� police said. 鈥淥nce stabilized, the child was transported by UVM Health Network's Critical Care Transport to UVM Medical Center in Burlington.鈥�
鈥淲e will be conducting a full investigation. We can't release many details at this point, mainly because we don't have them,鈥� he said.
Scott said officials are also withholding details to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation into the death.
Lowell-Henry was born Feb. 6, 2015, according to Vermont State Police. The state police are investigating the death, as is the Department for Children and Families.
Update 10:44 a.m. The headline of this post has been updated for clarity.
Correction July 10, 2017 at 2:32 p.m. An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the year in which Alexander Lowell-Henry was born. The text above has been corrected.
