Father Dies After Jumping Into Pond to Save Daughter

Father Dies After Jumping Into Pond to Save Daughter
Core Riverbend Apartments in Indianapolis, Indiana, where a man drowned trying to save his daughter. Screenshot via Google Maps
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A father in Indianapolis died after jumping into a lake to save his 3-year-old daughter.

Twenty-four-year-old Anthony Burgess Jr. was talking to friend Bobby Malone at the Core Riverbend Apartments complex at around 4:30 p.m. Burgess left the engine on while he stood outside his car. His daughter tried to get out of the car too, but he told her to go back to her seat. On the way back, investigators think she hit the gear shift and knocked the car out of Park, sending the car backward and into a retention pond, WTHR reported.
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