{"id":164887,"date":"2026-02-22T18:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164887\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T18:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:14:13","slug":"teen-dies-following-rescue-during-camping-trip-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164887\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen dies following rescue during camping trip, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2024-09-29-012220.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; Volusia County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Detectives are investigating the death of a 16-year-old boy who was found unresponsive in the Indian River during a group camping and fishing trip over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">According to authorities, a 16-year-old Hunter McKelvin of Paisley was discovered face-down in the water Saturday morning near an island east of Maynard May Park in Edgewater.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Reports suggest that friends who were with Hunter immediately began performing CPR and transported him by boat to Maynard May Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Officers with the Edgewater Police Department and emergency medical personnel took over life-saving efforts upon arrival. He was then transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced deceased at 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Authorities reported that no injuries were observed and there were no initial signs of suspicious circumstances at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">An autopsy is scheduled for Monday as investigators work to determine the official cause of death. The investigation remains active pending those results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story was written based on information provided by the Volusia Sheriff&#8217;s Office on February 22, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; Volusia County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Detectives are investigating the death of a 16-year-old boy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[115,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-164887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}