MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A 5-year-old boy died Thursday night after fire rescue personnel and police officers responded to Miami-Dade County’s Richmond West neighborhood.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel used a helicopter to airlift the boy after responding to a house with a pool along Southwest 168th Terrace, near 149th Avenue.
According to Detective Angel Rodriguez, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department, the boy was pronounced dead at HCA Florida Kendall Hospital.
“Despite medical efforts, he was pronounced deceased,” Rodriguez wrote in a statement.
According to Rodriguez, homicide detectives were investigating the boy’s death.
Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Wilson Louis contributed to this report.