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A 2-year-old girl drowned Sunday in a swimming pool at her home in Antioch, a Contra Costa County Deputy Coroner said today.

Jai Blackwell led herself to the backyard that afternoon without her parent's realizing it, according to police. She opened a gate that surrounds the pool by putting a chair up to it and reaching around to unlatch it, Antioch Police Sgt. Mike Schneider said today.

"The parents took every precaution they could think of,'' Schneider said. "What else could they have done short of not having a pool?''

Paramedics "scooped'' Blackwell out of the pool around 3:26 p.m. and rushed her to Sutter Delta Medical Center but were not able to revive the toddler.