HAVERSTRAW, NY – At approximately 1:30 pm today, police received a call about the boat in distress by the Haverstraw Bay Park. 

According to authorities, seven people were on the boat at the time, including the 8 year-year-old boy. The boy who was wearing a life vest, went missing for some time before being rescued. CPR was immediately preformed and transported to the Nyack Hospital. He would be pronounced dead  at the hospital. 

The 8-year-old boy has been identified as Yosef Goldman. He was the Great-Grandchild Of Skverer Rebbe from New Square (Rockland County.) A ceremony (levaya) will be held before Shabbos.

County Executive Day commented on the tragedy, “The death of any child is both an unspeakable horror and a family’s worst nightmare. The entire community of Rockland expresses its deepest regrets and condolences for the family of this young boy. May God bless him and his family.”

Via Thiells Fire Department

News 12 Reporting