Emily E. Smith/The OregonianAuthorities investigate at the setting of a suspicious death in Sherwood Thursday evening. Capt. Mark Daniel, a Sherwood police spokesman, declined to publish information near the child's identity, age or movement of death pending notification of relatives Thursday night.
He would only say that the last was suspicious.
The state medical examiner's office said it cannot release any information near the case, and is referring all calls to the Sherwood Police Department. Police have not returned The Oregonian's calls Friday seeking further details near the end and whether anyone had been arrested.
Shortly before 5 p.m. Thursday, officials from at least four police agencies responded to the family in the 17000 block of Southwest Galewood Drive, police said. Emergency medical crews took the child to a local hospital.
The Washington County Major Crimes Team was on scene investigating, and Washington County Chief Deputy District Attorney Rob Bletko also responded. Daniel would not say whether police thought a crime had been committed.
Dozens of residents, including many children, stood along police tape at the scene Thursday. They talked with one another, and some approached the law to try to get answers.
Police restricted access to the country about the two-story house. Yellow-and black police tape blocked off the home, neighboring residences, and a part of the quiet, tree-lined street in the Woodhaven subdivision in the southerly portion of the city.
Neighbors said a new girl lived in the house with her mom, dad and uncle.
Kelsey Frink, who lives across the street, said she saw the girl taken out of the family on a stretcher, while police talked to her father. "I could see blood all over her face," Frink said.
Paramedics performed CPR on the girl, who looked limp, she said. The father was led out of the interior later, Frink said.
The girl's mother, a stay-at-home mom, is calm and "never talked a lot," Frink said.
She described the girl's father as friendly, and the daughter as polite. "She was a very big sweetheart."
"It's just shocking," Frink said. "There's a lot of why questions, but we won't live that for a while."
Richard and Virginia Lowry, who inhabit a few houses down the street, were upset by the sizing of the crime scene.
Police remained at the prospect until about 4:30 or 5 a.m. the Lowrys said.
"This is the first incident we've had on this street in the 14 days that we've been here," Richard Lowry said.
- Emily E. Smith
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