There is an active investigation underway in Toms River as authorities attempt to find what caused the death of a Newark girl near a boat dock in Toms River.
Exact details regarding the incident are developing and pending the investigation, but according to preliminary reports, emergency responders rushed to the 40's block of Tobago Avenue after receiving reports of an injured child at that location before 8 p.m.
EMS crews arriving at the scene located a female victim, around the age of 10-years-old, unconscious and unresponsive by the dock and immediately began the process of CPR reports said.
The unidentified girl was rushed to an area hospital where she died sometime overnight or early this morning.
Friends of the girl identified her on Facebook as Kayla Matos a Newark Ironbound section resident who attended the Ann Street School.
Sources told RLS Metro Breaking News that Kayla was in the 5th grade at the school and a Girls Scout member, was visiting friends down in the Toms River community when she suffered the apparent electric shock while touching the rail to a an energized metal boat lift.
The investigation is active and ongoing.
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