A Springfield eighth-grader died after a drowning incident Wednesday afternoon at High Meadow Day Camp in Granby, Connecticut, turning a field trip into a tragedy that now has police and school officials piecing together what happened. Granby police identified the student Thursday as 14-year-old Emari Marshall-Woodard.

The incident was reported around 2:30 p.m. at the camp, which sits at High Meadow Resort at 311 North Granby Road. A Simsbury officer working a private detail at the campground was called to the pool area and began providing medical care before the child was treated at the scene and taken to Connecticut Children’s Medical Center.

The death quickly became a Springfield story as well as a Connecticut one. Springfield Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Sonia Dinall said the boy who died was a student in the district, and Azell Cavaan said a Springfield Public Schools student had been taken by ambulance from High Meadow on Wednesday. Dinall said the district’s entire community was grieving the loss and that counselors and support staff would be made available in the days and weeks ahead.

The school district also said it would not release additional information out of respect for the family’s privacy, leaving the basic outline of the case public but the most personal details shielded. That restraint stands alongside the hardest part of the response: police said numerous children who witnessed the incident later became emotionally distressed, a reminder that the impact spread well beyond the student who died.

Four ambulance crews from Granby, Windsor Locks, Simsbury and Suffield assisted in the response, underscoring how quickly the scene escalated and how many communities were pulled into it. The Granby Police Department said traumatic incidents can be deeply unsettling and pointed people to 211 for crisis support services and other resources.

The cause of death is still pending further studies, and the incident remains under investigation. For now, the confirmed facts are grim enough: a 14-year-old Springfield student died after a drowning incident at a Granby camp, and a school district that had expected an ordinary field trip is now dealing with a loss it has not yet been able to fully explain.