Police hear 911 call about drowned boy in Fort Lauderdale jumping into pool – NBC 6 South Florida

In a dramatic new 911 call about the incident, police officers can be heard jumping into a pool in Fort Lauderdale to rescue a young boy who had drowned.

The 911 call received by NBC6 on Wednesday describes the response after 8-year-old Ryan Amichette was discovered in the pool in the 1100 block of Northwest 4th Avenue on Monday evening.

“I just woke up, looked outside and saw a pair of little shoes next to my pool. And there’s a little kid on the bottom of my pool,” a homeowner tells an emergency dispatcher on the phone.

“Do you know whose child this is?” asks the dispatcher.

“I’ve never seen him before, we’ve never had a stray child here before. I see his clothes are here at the gate and his shoes are over by the pool and he’s laying on the bottom, swimming and looking at the bottom,” the caller replies, then sighs, “Oh my goodness.”

An 8-year-old boy who drowned in a Fort Lauderdale backyard pool has been identified as authorities investigate how he ended up there.

“Do you know how long he’s been there?” asks the dispatcher.

“No,” the caller replies, while sirens can be heard in the background.

“How old does the patient look?” asks the dispatcher.

“Around five, I would guess,” the homeowner replies when he hears the police arriving at the pool.

“Where, where, where?” a policeman shouts at the homeowner.

“Right there, right there!” the caller says before a splash is heard as the officer jumps into the pool to get Amichette.

“They’re here now,” the caller tells the dispatcher. “They have him, the police have him, they jumped in and got him.”

An officer can then be heard questioning the homeowner.

“You have no idea who this boy is?” asks the officer.

“I don’t think I ever saw the boy. There was never a stray child here,” the homeowner replies. “I just woke up from a nap and I was going out… and I saw these shoes here and I went out, I went over here, I saw these clothes there and I looked in here and I saw him.”

Amichette was taken to Broward Health Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

Police later confirmed that Amichette did not live in the house and the homeowner did not know him.

In a statement on Tuesday, police said Amichette’s death appeared to be an accident.

Investigators are still trying to determine how and why he entered the backyard and pool.

Amichette’s brother said the boy disappeared after school. He said a babysitter was supposed to pick him up from school, but that didn’t happen.

“We searched for him for almost three hours until it was six o’clock, and then I saw a lot of police around the corner. I ran to the police and said, ‘Have you seen a little boy?’ And then the police said, ‘We just found a little boy in the pool,'” said Brother Gibson Severe.

The babysitter told the family she saw Amichette walking with other children and she called out to him, but he kept walking, Severe said.

It is unclear whether he was on his way to the swimming pool alone or with other children.

The pool is shared by four different buildings and the property is fenced.