Coroner Rules UConn Student's Death as Drowning

By Mike Springer
|  Tuesday, Jul 7, 2009  |  Updated 1:34 PM EST
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Coroner Rules UConn Student's Death as Drowning

A University of Connecticut sophomore drowned Sunday afternoon after swimming in a private pond in Guilford.

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A University of Connecticut sophomore drowned Sunday afternoon after swimming in a private pond in Guilford.

Garland Brown, 19, of Queens, N.Y., was swimming in a private pond off of Susanne Circle in the Valley Shore area of Guilford with friends from UConn, when he disappeared under the water, police said. The medical examiner says drowning is the cause of death.

Brown's friends discovered his body and took him to shore, where they began preforming CPR.  Shortly after, Brown was transported to the Yale-New Haven Shoreline Medical Center in Guilford where he was pronounced dead.

Brown's friends have set-up a Facebook page in remembrance of him.  He would have turned 20-years-old in a few weeks.

Posted Sunday, Jul 19, 2009 - 9:59 PM EST
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