Teen twin brothers die after one fell in Miami lake and the other jumped in to save him
Teenage twin brothers both die after one fell into Lake Miami and the other jumped in to save him – neither sibling could swim
- The twins were playing by the lake in Northwest Miami’s Arthur Woodard Park
- One of the twins was pushed into the lake by another teen, witnesses say
- The brother jumped into the water to try to save his twin brother, but police say the boys couldn’t swim and began to drown
Two teenage brothers both died from drowning after one brother fell into a Miami lake and the other jumped in after him, officials said.
The boys were playing by the lake in Miami’s Arthur Woodard Park around 3 p.m. Friday when one of the twins was pushed into the water by another teen, a witness said.
The other twin jumped into the lake to try to save his brother, but the boys couldn’t swim and began to drown, police said.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded to the scene and three divers entered the water to search for the missing boys. Once located, paramedics performed CPR and transported both of them to a nearby hospital.
One of the twins died in hospital and the other twin was in critical condition but later died, officials said.
Teenage twin brothers die tragically after one brother fell into Lake Miami and the other twin jumped in to save him and both drowned, officials said
Police and witnesses at the scene of the Friday afternoon tragedy at Arthur Woodward Park on Northwest 99th Street in Northwest Miami
Startled witness Miguel ‘El Skipper’ Quintero, who lives on the other side of the lake, saw divers searching the lake for about an hour.
He told NBC6 Miami that the lake is about 15 feet deep.
“You never want to see something like that… as hard as it gets,” Quintero said.
At the crime scene, a Miami-Dade official told the news outlet, “My heart goes out to their family.
“This is a very, very sad event when you have a group of kids playing in a park on a nice day for this to happen,” he said.
The Miami-Dade Police Department did not respond to a request for comment.
The identity and age of the boys have not been released. Police are in the process of notifying family members, officials said.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, Florida ranks 6th in the U.S. for unintentional drowning deaths per capita among children ages 0 to 17 by 2022.
According to the Florida Department of Children and Families, there have already been 22 drownings in the state of Florida this year.
In 2022, the department reported a total of 93 drownings.
An unknown woman comforts a young girl in the park and near where the drownings took place
Miami-Dade and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials rushed to the park when they were alerted that two people were in the water