By Associated Press - Saturday, July 1, 2017

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Negligent homicide charges have been filed against a 30-year-old man in the deaths of two young children who drowned after the truck they were in rolled into a pond.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports (https://bit.ly/2txGpOg ) charges were filed against Jonathan Daniel Welborn in the deaths of 2-year-old Sofia Welborn and 6-month-old Zane Welborn.

Welborn and 26-year-old Brittany Nichole Hairston also face counts of first-degree endangering the welfare of a minor.



Saline County authorities say deputies were dispatched Wednesday night to a house where they found a truck submerged with its lights on in a pond across the road. Officials found the children still strapped in their car seats.

Deputies learned that Welborn and Hairston were playing pool inside the house when the truck rolled across the highway and into the pond.

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Information from: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, https://www.arkansasonline.com

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