A drowning investigation was underway after a young boy who was pulled from a pool at a Fort Lauderdale home died Monday night.
Fort Lauderdale Police officials said they received a call around 6:30 p.m. of a child who was in a pool at a home in the 1100 block of Northwest 4th Avenue.
Officers responded and jumped into the pool to retrieve the child and immediately began lifesaving measures, officials said.
The child, a boy around 7, was taken to Broward Health Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. His identity hasn’t been released.
Police said it appears the boy didn’t live at the home and that the homeowner didn’t know the boy.
“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,” neighbor Breshawn Johnson said.
Behind the house, investigators were spotted walking around the pool and taking photos of the scene.
Longtime neighbor Steve Chaner said the pool is behind a 6-foot fence.
“I’ve lived in that house right over there since 1959 and the lady that was the owner there put in a swimming pool but it’s been fenced in ever since,” Chaner said.
The incident remains under investigation.
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Source: NbcMiami
