Articles labeled: gary

A 4-year-old boy was trapped for 45 minutes on a speedboat zipping around Lake Michigan after his parents fell overboard.

Gary Marine Unit Patrolman Phillip Cook says the wake from a larger boat apparently tossed the adults overboard, where they were rescued by a passing boat. The father evidently turned the steering wheel as he fell Tuesday and the boat began going in circles at full throttle near the East Chicago marina.

Police and Coast Guard officers tried throwing tow lines to stop the boat, but it eventually stopped after drifting near rocks that clipped the propeller and killed the motor.

A 2-year-old in Gary, Indiana was struck and killed by a passing freight train when he was playing too close to the tracks near his home.

The train’s engineer saw the boy but could not stop in time. Gary Police say they don’t expect charges to be filed against the parents of Ryan Watson and are calling his death a tragic accident. But the boy’s family sees things a little differently. They say if there was some sort of fence around the tracks he might still be alive.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do without him. He was so close to me,” said Janet Watson, victim’s grandmother