MARINETTE (NBC 26) — Two people have been arrested in connection with the drowning death of 13-year-old Jakob Bowerman, who died three days after being pulled from the Menominee River in what his family believes was not an accident.

Watch Kyle Langellier's full story here: Mother of teen speaks out after two arrested in drowning death in Marinette

Jakob died on Aug. 23, three days after police and first responders rescued him from the water near the Marinette pier on Aug. 20.

"He would always make you laugh, he'd make you cry from laughing so hard. He was just my baby, the perfect kid," said Taylor Singer, Jakob's mother.

Singer told me her son had been bullied throughout his life because he is autistic and has a speech impediment. She said Jakob could not swim and would never have

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