15-year-old son of Nigerian Diplomat drowns in US

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013

We suspect foul play -Family

The son of a Nigerian diplomat, Hafis Kareem 15, was
confirmed dead by Police on Early Sunday morning after being
drowned at the New Mark Commons community pool in
Rockville, Maryland, USA

PSN gathered that Kareem and some other kids jumped over
the fence to get into the pool area late Saturday night.

According to the Montgomery Police, We were told Kareem
went under water and the others with him yelled for help,
asking someone walking by to call 911.

The 15-year old was taken to the hospital where he died early
Sunday morning.

Hafis Kareem’s father was a diplomat at the Embassy of
Nigeria, Washington, DC and just recently got posted back to
Abuja.

His sister, Hamidat Kareem, doesn\’t understand why he was in
the water because he didn’t know how to swim. She says
“none of us know how to swim, so I don’t know what happened,
if they pushed him in. We had a pool party here and he didn\’t
swim, he just stood by the pool.”

Police say there is nothing to indicate Kareem was pushed
from their investigation.

We\’re told the kids were at the pool for about an hour before
the incident happened – it\’s unclear what happened but police
believe these were teenagers being teenagers. Detectives
talked to the friends and are calling it an accidental drowning.

The whole situation doesn\’t sit well with the family, who says
the friends ran away after they called for help. Hamidat tells us
\”they are not really his friends, real friends would stay with
you and be there for you.”

Residents tell us kids have snuck in before but nothing like this
has happened. A new fence was put up we\’re told in the past
couple of years, in part, to prevent things like this from
happening.

Mincy Neil, who has lived here for 27 years, says “kids do
sneak in from time to time; we haven\’t had any incidents since
we put the new fence in but apparently they got in that way.”

It\’s a tragedy one family is now struggling to cope with.
Hamidat Kareem said “he was just an amazing person, I am
going to miss him so much.”

Montgomery County Police are still investigating but don\’t
believe there was any foul play involved and don\’t expect any
charges in this case.

He has since been buried in Virginia on Sunday.

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