[CREDIT: Mary Carlos] Warwick City Park Beach, where Jamil Stewart, 6, drowned Aug. 14. Investigation of the death has since illuminated staffing and planning oversight at the beach.

‘We Begged Them to Go in the Water’: Lifeguards Unprepared for Aug. 14 Warwick City Park Drowning

By: Rob Borkowski on September 16, 2016 in Police, Police News & Fire News in RI

WARWICK, RI — Warwick Police interviews with witnesses and lifeguards at Warwick City Beach when Jamil Stewart, 6, drowned Aug. 14 show the Parks and Recreation Department has no lifeguard […]

Warwick Police Headquarters at 99 Veterans Memorial Drive.

Mayor Offers Condolences as WPD Investigates Boy’s Accidental Drowning at Warwick City Park

By: Rob Borkowski on August 15, 2016 in Police, Police News & Fire News in RI

Mayor Scott Avedisian expressed his sympathy as well as that of the City, Warwick Police and Warwick Fire Departments to family of a young boy who drowned at Warwick City Park Sunday at 5:30 p.m.