An 8-year-old boy died Monday night after drowning in a stranger’s swimming pool in Fort Lauderdale, police said.
About 6:30 p.m., Fort Lauderdale police received a 911 call about a child in a pool in the backyard of a home in the 1100 block of Northwest Fourth Avenue, spokesman Casey Liening said in a news release.
Police officers jumped into the pool to save the boy and began life-saving measures. Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue then took the boy to Broward Health Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
The owner of the home did not know the boy, police said, and the drowning “appears to have been an accident.”
Detectives are conducting a death investigation to determine how and why the boy entered the home’s backyard and pool.
Anyone with information should contact Fort Lauderdale police.
