Father dies, 2 children injured after car plunges into Indianapolis pond

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Father dead, 2 kids pulled from retention pond

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A car went into a pond early Tuesday on the northeast side of Indianapolis, leaving a man dead and two children injured.

Investigators say 28-year-old Dechon Sims drove his car into a pond off of Pendleton Way, near I-465 and Pendleton Pike, just after midnight.

Four Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers entered the water to rescue the man and the children, Indianapolis Fire Department Chief Rita Reith said.

The children are a 9-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl, and Sims was their father, according to Reith.

Reith says officers at the scene believed Sims and his daughter were in cardiac arrest and started CPR.

Sims was transported to a local hospit...

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