CONTACT: SGT. GREG SOWELL
POLICE PIO- 936.559.2618
The Nacogdoches Police Department has been notified by State Child Protective Services that the victim in Sunday afternoon’s rope accident on Mitchell Street has died.
Addison Perez, age 8 of Nacogdoches died in a Houston hospital at 1:35 pm this afternoon.
The call to the Nacogdoches Consolidated Dispatch Center was received at 2:06 p.m. Sunday afternoon. Officers arrived to find the child unresponsive. Preliminary investigation indicated that she had been playing with a rope on a stairwell, and had become entangled with the rope around her neck. She was transported to a local hospital and later transferred to Houston.
So far, the investigation has indicated that this was a tragic accident. The incident is being investigated by NPD Detectives and State Child Protective Services workers. Currently the case remains open and under investigation.
