{"id":279470,"date":"2026-05-21T13:30:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/279470\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:30:33","slug":"loving-kid-family-mourns-6-year-old-who-ran-off-and-drowned-in-miami-dade-canal-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/279470\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Loving kid\u2019: Family mourns 6-year-old who ran off and drowned in Miami-Dade canal \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

A family is grieving after a 6-year-old boy drowned<\/a> Tuesday in a southwest Miami-Dade canal blocks from his home.<\/p>\n

Family members say 6-year-old King Supa Dixon was full of life.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a loving kid,\u201d said Vanessa Wesley, King’s aunt.<\/p>\n

She said she was on the phone with her sister, who is the child\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s sad that it was sudden and so random,\u201d Wesley said. \u201cImmediately I heard, ‘Where’s King, where’s King?’\u201d<\/p>\n

Her sister just got to her Homestead home after picking up King from daycare, Wesley said. When her sister was unloading the car, King ran off.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe didn’t realize that he bolted out,\u201d Wesley said.<\/p>\n

King’s mother drove around to search for her son, but couldn’t find him. 911 was called, and a deputy found the 6-year-old in a nearby canal less than a mile from his home. He was declared dead at the hospital. Wesley said her nephew was autistic and didn’t know how to swim.<\/p>\n

King’s grandmother,\u00a0Loustanie Dorval,\u00a0is also heartbroken.<\/p>\n

\u201cLove your kids, I love my grandson, I always cook for him, buy anything he wants, I love my grandkids, he lost just like that,\u201d Dorval said.<\/p>\n

A child who barely began to live, and a family dealing with an unimaginable loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe made everyone smile; he was always with the giggles,\u201d Wesley said. \u201cThis is something that has impacted our family for the rest of our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the Florida Department of Children and Families<\/a>,\u00a0119 children drowned in Florida last year, and people with autism are up to 160 times more likely to drown than their neurotypical peers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family is grieving after a 6-year-old boy drowned Tuesday in a southwest Miami-Dade canal blocks from his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,1064],"class_list":["post-279470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279470","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=279470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}