A witness reported it appeared Onyx Torres was caught in a current that pulled him away from shore.
A 7-year-old Chicago boy this week was swimming in Lake Michigan offshore from Northwest Indiana with his grandparents watching him – when a strong current swept him away.CBS 2's Charlie De Mar spoke Friday night to the grieving mother of the boy, Onyx Torres, who had just finished first grade in the Chicago Public Schools system. Onyx was supposed to spend the weekend at his grandparents' vacation house in Northwest Indiana – but now he is gone.
"And it's a park ranger calling me, and he tells me that there was an incident - and my son had to be pulled out of the water," Cruz said. "And I'm told that my son was in the water - he was with his grandfather - and a wave took him," Cruz said."They said that he was about knees-deep. It doesn't make sense."
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