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Police are investigating the death of a 7-year-old foster care child who reportedly hanged himself Thursday in the bathroom of a Margate home.
Officers received a 911 call of a possible hanging in the 6500 block of Northwest Ninth Street about 1:37 p.m., police spokesman Officer Vonley Williams said.
When officers arrived, they found the boy unresponsive, Williams said. The boy was taken to Northwest Medical Center, where doctors pronounced him dead at 2:45 p.m.
Williams said police were told the boy had hanged himself inside a bathroom.
Investigators have learned that the boy was a foster child and had been in the care of the Margate couple for about three weeks. Williams could not say how long the child was under the care of the state, but said he had moved several times.
''Apparently he's got a long history of being bounced around,'' Williams said.
Williams said police are reaching out to the boy's biological family. His guardian has been notified of the death.
Williams said an autopsy is to be performed to determine exactly how the boy died.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1004367.html
Officers received a 911 call of a possible hanging in the 6500 block of Northwest Ninth Street about 1:37 p.m., police spokesman Officer Vonley Williams said.
When officers arrived, they found the boy unresponsive, Williams said. The boy was taken to Northwest Medical Center, where doctors pronounced him dead at 2:45 p.m.
Williams said police were told the boy had hanged himself inside a bathroom.
Investigators have learned that the boy was a foster child and had been in the care of the Margate couple for about three weeks. Williams could not say how long the child was under the care of the state, but said he had moved several times.
''Apparently he's got a long history of being bounced around,'' Williams said.
Williams said police are reaching out to the boy's biological family. His guardian has been notified of the death.
Williams said an autopsy is to be performed to determine exactly how the boy died.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1004367.html