A Bellingham boy has died from injuries he suffered days earlier in an accident on a rope swing, according to police.
Benny Capp, 12, a seventh-grader at Kulshan Middle School, was flown to Seattle Children’s Hospital Saturday evening after a family member found him hanging from a rope swing outside a house in the Whatcom Falls neighborhood, said Bellingham Police Sgt. Dave Johnson.
Firefighters performed CPR on the boy until they found a pulse again. Capp remained at the Seattle hospital for four days. He died Wednesday.
On Thursday the King County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Capp died from asphyxia due to ligature hanging.