Police released the identity Wednesday of the toddler who drowned in a southeast Denver apartment- complex pond Tuesday, and police continue to investigate.
Moises Bahakal was playing with at least one other child on the bank of a pond in front of the Twin Lake Towers complex when he fell in about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to police spokesman Detective John White and other police statements.
Moises died eight days after his second birthday.
After a playmate alerted the mother to Moises’ fall, she pulled him out of the pond and tried to revive him, White said.
White declined to reveal the mother’s name, where she was when the boy fell in or what she was doing at the time.
Ruth Nyman, an employee at the apartment building, said Moises spent a lot of time with his father.
The father was not at the complex at the time Moises drowned, but he was a doting father, said Helen Froman, an employee of the building.
“He was like a hawk watching him,” Froman said. “That little boy was his life.”
Froman described Moises, whose parents were from Ethiopia, as a happy child who waved hello to everyone.
He just started to learn English, she said.
“He was our baby,” she said.
0Staff writer Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer can be reached at 303-820-1316 or awittmeyer@denverpost.com.
