{"id":333761,"date":"2026-07-08T23:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333761\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T23:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:47:23","slug":"mother-sues-developers-after-teen-son-drowns-in-miami-dade-lake-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333761\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother sues developers after teen son drowns in Miami-Dade lake \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly two weeks after a teen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/he-was-kind-mother-heartbroken-after-son-14-drowns-in-sw-miami-dade-lake\/3827082\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">drowned in a southwest Miami-Dade lake<\/a> just blocks from his own home, his family is now taking legal action against the developers.<\/p>\n<p>Jazmine Sanders and her attorneys have filed a negligence lawsuit against three corporations, alleging that the tragedy could have been prevented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor this to happen to my baby, I don\u2019t think any parent expects for this to happen,&#8221; Sanders said.<\/p>\n<p>Back on June 27, Sanders said her 14-year-old son, Marcus, and some friends went swimming in a lake near North Redland Road on Northwest 12th Street, just a few blocks from their home.<\/p>\n<p>He was supposed to come back home, but later that night, at around 7 p.m., Sanders said they heard sirens and saw ambulances rushing to the lake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour children are supposed to bury you, not the other way around,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Within an hour of Marcus\u2019 drowning, officials said they got a call about a second near-drowning at the same lake.<\/p>\n<p>According to Florida\u2019s Department of Children and Families, more than 65 children under 18 have died from drowning so far this year. If that pace continues, the total could surpass last year\u2019s record of 120.<\/p>\n<p>In a 12-page complaint filed Monday, Sanders&#8217; attorneys allege the three corporations named in the lawsuit failed to properly secure or safely maintain the lake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were no barrier, signage, warnings, etc. There were also code issues that are referenced in the complaint as well,&#8221; lawyer Kurt Obrant said.<\/p>\n<p>For Marcus\u2019s mom, this is about prevention for future tragedies, but it does not bring her son back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have rather have had my son,&#8221; she said. \u201c&#8230;His presence, that light, his presence&#8230;That boy had the biggest heart, probably bigger than mine\u2026I\u2019m going to miss him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NBC6 reached out to the three corporations involved in this lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly two weeks after a teen drowned in a southwest Miami-Dade lake just blocks from his own home,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4137,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-333761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-lawsuits","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333761","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=333761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}