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Investigation continues into boating crash that killed boy

Police interviewing witnesses to crash on Petite Lake

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Petite Lake near Lake Villa was significantly less crowded with boat traffic Monday than over the weekend, when a 10-year-old Libertyville boy was killed in a boating accident. Authorities are still investigating the death, which occurred when the boy fell from an inner tube and was struck by a boat.

Gilbert R. Boucher II | Staff Photographer

Tony Borcia

Petite Lake near Lake Villa was significantly less crowded with boat traffic Monday than over the weekend, when a 10-year-old Libertyville boy was killed in a boating accident. Authorities are still investigating the death, which occurred when the boy fell from an inner tube and was struck by a boat.

Gilbert R. Boucher II | Staff Photographer

Petite Lake near Lake Villa was significantly less crowded with boat traffic Monday than over the weekend, when a 10-year-old Libertyville boy was killed in a boating accident. Authorities are still investigating the death, which occurred when the boy fell from an inner tube and was struck by a boat.

Gilbert R. Boucher II | Staff Photographer

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Investigators spent Monday still trying to determine the cause of a boating accident on Petite Lake near Lake Villa over the weekend that took the life of a 10-year-old Libertyville boy, authorities said. Tony Borcia, 10, of Libertyville was killed after he fell off an inner tube and was run over by another boat. “It's not illegal to pull a kid on a tube in that location, but that area can get busy with boaters on a Saturday,” said Sgt. Brett Scroggins of the Illinois Conservation Police.