morning of play at a neighbor's swimming pool

ended in tragedy last Thursday for a Fayette

County toddler.

According

to reports, 2-year-old Shane Smith was found in

the pool by a Federal Express employee who was

delivering a package at the location of the

incident, east of Fayetteville on Ga. Highway 54.

Deputies responded to the call at about 10 a.m.

and attempted to revive the child with CPR.

The

boy had wandered off with his 5-year-old sister

while their mother slept, according to Maj. Bruce

Jordan of the Fayette County Sheriff's

Department. The pool, which was located on the

adjacent property, was not fenced in.

The

two children were living with their mother in an

RV parked next to her parents' home. The

grandmother, Barbara Hardin, told investigators

that everyone was inside the RV and did not

realize the boy was gone.

Christine,

Shane's sister, told authorities that he slid off

a slide into the pool, and that she went in and

pulled him out.

Shane

was pronounced dead shortly after 11 a.m. at

Fayette Community Hospital.

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