A young boy, approximately 7 years old, died after being retrieved from a swimming pool at a Fort Lauderdale residence on Monday evening, as per authorities. Fort Lauderdale Police were summoned around 6:30 p.m. to the 1100 block of Northwest 4th Avenue, where they found the child submerged and initiated lifesaving tactics; however, the boy was pronounced dead after he was transported to Broward Health Medical Center, as reported by NBC Miami.
The child's identity has not yet been disclosed and investigators are probing into how he came to be in the pool since the homeowner claimed unawareness of the boy's identity the pool was fenced in all this time, a neighbor indicated that they had never seen children at that house; Fort Lauderdale police is leading an ongoing death investigation pertaining to this incident augmented by the fact that the home is equipped with round-the-clock camera surveillance which might yield clues to unravel the events leading to the tragedy, informed Local 10 News.
According to witnesses, the property has been secured by a 6-foot fence and lacks residents who are children, hinting at the unusual nature of the presence of the young boy in the pool, as detailed by CBS Miami.
Breshawn Johnson, a local resident, recounted the alarming discovery when a woman inquired about a boy, stating, "We was just walking and that lady said 'do we know a little boy that’s over here,' she said the little boy drowned in the pool, that’s it," in a statement obtained by NBC Miami.
The Fort Lauderdale community has been touched by the incident, with neighbors expressing their distress over the tragedy Steve Chaner, a longtime resident, recalled to NBC Miami that the swimming pool had been a permanent fixture, secured by a fence since its construction by the original homeowner. The investigation by Fort Lauderdale Police aims to piece together how the child ended up at the bottom of this residential swimming pool despite the significant preventative barriers and the absence of a known connection between the child and the home's owner.
