{"id":495480,"date":"2026-01-06T02:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/495480\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T02:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:40:09","slug":"6-year-old-boy-found-unresponsive-in-pool-later-died-at-hospital-fort-worth-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/495480\/","title":{"rendered":"6-year-old boy found unresponsive in pool later died at hospital, Fort Worth police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A 6-year-old boy died Monday afternoon after the child was found unresponsive in a pool in east <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fort-worth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fort-worth\/\">Fort Worth<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/dallas-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/dallas-police\/\">police<\/a> said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Officials responded to reports of a water emergency in the 8200 block of Fall Crest Drive around 1:46 p.m., the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Once there, police located an unresponsive victim who  had been found underwater in a pool. Police confirmed the victim was  6 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The boy was  rushed to a hospital and pronounced dead by medical staff, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police said there is currently no foul play suspected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">No further information about the incident was immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 6-year-old boy died Monday afternoon after the child was found unresponsive in a pool in east Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":495481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[54226,5229,7371,7372,5292,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-495480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-accidental-death","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-public-safety","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115845845786749231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}