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Fight Breaks Out At Norwalk Home After 11-Year-Old Boy Nearly Drowns

NORWALK, Conn. – An 11-year-old Norwalk boy who was playing in a bathtub nearly drowned late Monday, leading to a fight and a arrest at his home, according to police.

Norwalk police dispatchers instructed a mother in how to perform CPR on her 11-year-old son late Monday after the child nearly drowned in the bathtub.

Norwalk police dispatchers instructed a mother in how to perform CPR on her 11-year-old son late Monday after the child nearly drowned in the bathtub.

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Norwalk resident Antoni Profit, 33, was arrested on assault and related charges Monday after he allegedly fought with the drowning child's grandfather.

Norwalk resident Antoni Profit, 33, was arrested on assault and related charges Monday after he allegedly fought with the drowning child's grandfather.

Photo Credit: Norwalk Police Department

The child, whose identity was not released, was rushed to Norwalk Hospital from his Strawberry Hill Avenue home just after 10 p.m., police said. He was still breathing, but his current condition was not known, police said.

Police said the child was playing with a small car alone in the bathtub when his mother heard him gasping for air. She ran into the bathroom and pulled the child out of the tub, police said.

She called 911, and dispatchers talked her through the process of performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, police said. Paramedics also treated the child at the scene and en route to the hospital.

Minutes after paramedics left with the child, two relatives got into a fight over the incident that led to the arrest of one and injuries to the other.

Police said Antoni Profit, 33, of Howard Avenue in Norwalk, confronted his 66-year-old father, the child’s grandfather, at the scene over the grandfather's failure to go to the hospital with the boy.

The grandfather said he did not need to go, at which point the argument escalated, police said. Profit grabbed a guitar in the garage where they were arguing and clubbed his father in the head with it, knocking him to the ground, police said. Profit then began punching the man in the head, police said.

Officers, who were still on the scene, had to use a taser on Profit to break up the fight, police said. The grandfather suffered a swollen left eye and a cut above it, police said. Police did not disclose Profit's relationship to the child.

Profit was arrested on charges of second-degree assault, assault on a victim over 60 years old, interfering with an officer and possession of a small amount of marijuana.

He was held on $5,000 bond and was scheduled to appear in Norwalk Superior Court on Tuesday.

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