{"id":323530,"date":"2026-06-29T17:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/323530\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:12:13","slug":"deputies-identify-teen-who-drowned-in-florida-city-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/323530\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputies identify teen who drowned in Florida City lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published:\u00a0June 29, 2026 at 12:49 PM<\/p>\n

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FLORIDA CITY, Fla. \u2014 The Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office on Monday identified a 14-year-old boy who drowned over the weekend in a Florida City lake as Marcus L. Sanders. <\/p>\n

According to authorities, deputies responded to a lake in the area of Southwest 336th Street and Southwest 192nd Avenue <\/a>at about 7:15 p.m. Saturday after several teenagers reported that a teenage boy had gone into the lake and didn\u2019t come back up. <\/p>\n

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews joined the search, and a diver later found Sanders underwater and unresponsive.<\/p>\n

Rescue crews performed life-saving efforts before the boy was taken to Homestead Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, officials said.<\/p>\n

While crews were still working that scene, another group of teenagers across the lake also went into the water, first responders said. <\/p>\n

Deputies said a second 14-year-old boy went underwater and didn\u2019t resurface.<\/p>\n

He was later found by MDFR divers and was airlifted to the trauma center at HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition, officials said.<\/p>\n

Deputies confirmed that the boy remained in critical condition on Monday. His name has not been released.<\/p>\n

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Aaron came to Local 10 from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he worked as a weekend morning anchor and reporter at WITI-TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 29, 2026 at 12:49 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand(WPLG) FLORIDA CITY, Fla. \u2014 The Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office on Monday identified…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-323530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323530","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=323530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}