Overview
- Deputies found the child at the bottom of a pool just after 1 p.m. Monday at an Airbnb on Takeaway Way in Davenport and performed CPR before the child was taken to AdventHealth Celebration where they were pronounced dead.
- Osceola County homicide detectives responded to the scene as part of the standard procedure for unexplained child deaths and have opened an active investigation into the drowning.
- Authorities said the 5-year-old was from Brevard County and was staying with extended family and playing in the pool with other children, but officials have not released details about supervision or how long the child was underwater.
- Reporters link this death to a recent cluster of vacation-rental pool fatalities, including the Kissimmee case involving 5-year-old twins, and note Florida is seeing elevated child-drowning numbers this summer.
- The investigation could prompt closer scrutiny of safety at short-term rentals and pool supervision rules while family members and the community cope with the loss.