Family of boy who drowned in a ‘borrow pit’ calls for more arrests after 10- and 11-year-old are charged weeks later
It took 55 days to confirm what Noah Bush’s family had known for weeks.
It took 55 days to confirm what Noah Bush’s family had known for weeks. His death was not an accident, as authorities had initially insisted.
Now the family of the 8-year-old Georgia boy who drowned in a construction pit in May is calling for more arrests and a deeper investigation into the child’s death, which has been ruled a homicide, their attorney said.
Two boys, ages 10 and 11, have been arrested and charged in Noah’s death. But an attorney for the family, Francys Johnson, said the Bushes are calling for the arrest of any adults who may have had a role in covering up the boys’ actions and criticized a sheriff’s department that for weeks said Noah’s death was an accident.
Noah was found dead May 16, a day after he was reported missing, in a borrow pit filled with water near his home in Jesup, Georgia, law enforcement and Johnson have said. A borrow pit is an area where material like dirt or soil has been dug out for use at another site.
He was last seen hanging out with a 10-year-old, whom he had known for a few months and considered a friend, and an 11-year-old he’d met that day, Johnson said.
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