MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A dive team pulled a 13-year-old boy from a canal in northwest Miami-Dade Tuesday afternoon after officials said they’d received a call of a possible drowning.
The incident happened just before 4 p.m. in the Little River Canal, in the 100 block of Northwest 85th Street in the unincorporated West Little River area.
A Miami-Dade police spokesperson said someone called 911 to report that the child went into the water and didn’t come back up.
Surveillance video captured the teen behind a home along Northwest 85th Street with a friend. He urinates on the property before he runs and jumps into the water.
He’s seen struggling and at one point, a resident of the building comes out and tried to help by grabbing a paddle and then a canoe.
“My roommate came out and tried to save him with a paddle,” said property manager Paul Stoppelwerth. “He couldn’t reach the paddle and he called 911.”
According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, medics were taking the child to a local hospital.
Natasha Rogers, the boy’s aunt, told Local 10 News she was informed that the boy was stabilized and had a pulse as of early Tuesday evening.