LEESBURG – A 2-year-old boy pulled from Kuhn Lake Saturday died Sunday afternoon. According to a press release from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, conservation officers confirmed that at 3:22 p.m. Sunday, 2-year-old Tucker Farmer, of Marion, died at Lutheran General Hospital in Fort Wayne. An autopsy will be performed by the Allen County Coroner’s Office today to determine the cause of death. Indiana conservation officers will continue to investigate the incident. Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department stated in a press release Sunday that North Webster EMS & Fire Rescue and KCSD deputies responded to the area of #12 EMS B3A Lane, Leesburg, at approximately 7 p.m. Saturday after receiving a 911 call of a toddler who had been pulled from the water at Kuhn Lake, part of the Barbee Lake chain, near the shoreline. KCSD detectives stated that CPR was immediately started on the child who was then taken to Kosciusko Community Hospital in Warsaw. He was subsequently airlifted to Lutheran Memorial Hospital, Fort Wayne, in critical condition. The child had gone missing for only minutes when family members found Farmer face down in the water not breathing around 7 p.m.
