A 7-year-old boy drowned Sunday in an Oakland Park pool, Broward Sheriff's deputies said.
According to deputies the victim and his father were attending a barbecue by the pool.
The emergency call was made at 5:40 p.m. from an apartment at 95 NE 41 Street.
BSO said someone by the pool saw the boy floating in the water, jumped in and took him out.
"I took my phone and I start calling 911," said Ricardo Izquierdo, a resident who noticed a crowd of people pull the boy from the water. "They were freaking out over there."
The boy appeared to be unconscious as relatives did what they could to save him.
"His father, who had come with him here to this apartment complex for some sort of gathering jumped in right away and started doing CPR to try to save his son." BSO spokeswoman Keyla Concepcion said.
Detectives spent hours circling the pool for clues and interviewing a number of relatives who were at the complex for the same gathering. Signs near the swimming pool showed it eight feet deep on its deepest end.
It's unclear if the boy was supervised at the time of the drowning. Investigators detained a number of people for questioning in an attempt to gain answers. The drowning appeared to be accidental and no foul play was suspected.
Oakland Park Fire Rescue transported the boy Holy Cross Hospital, but he did not survive.