{"id":411713,"date":"2026-08-20T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T09:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/411713\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T09:04:09","slug":"young-boy-dies-4-days-after-near-drowning-at-community-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/411713\/","title":{"rendered":"Young boy dies 4 days after near-drowning at community pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A young boy who had been in critical condition after nearly drowning at a Far North Side community pool has died.<\/p>\n<p>The Bexar County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office identified the child as Malachi Israel LeBlanc. He died Aug. 9 from complications of a near-drowning. His death was ruled an accident.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/young-boy-remains-in-critical-condition-after-nearly-drowning-at-community-pool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Young boy remains in critical condition after nearly drowning at community pool<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The incident happened just before 7:30 p.m. Aug. 5 at a residential community pool near Turquoise Sky and Wilderness Oak.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bexar County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Malachi was found unresponsive in the water and pulled from the pool.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies began lifesaving efforts until EMS arrived. The boy was then taken to a hospital in critical condition where he died four days later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A young boy who had been in critical condition after nearly drowning at a Far&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-411713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}