A witness made a 911 call just after a 16-year-old was killed by lightning in a Pembroke Pines neighborhood last week, and the booming sounds of thunder can be heard in the background. The 911 call is one of two acquired by NBC6 on Monday from the September 18 incident that killed Cameron Day.
“I’m in front of my house, and front of the house, there is a guy in the bicycle, and he’s on the ground, and it’s raining and thundering, and he doesn’t move, he’s been there like for five minutes, or ten minutes,” a man says to the dispatcher while on the phone. Thunder may be heard in the background as the caller describes what happened.
“He’s over there, and it’s thundering, you know, and he’s over there under the tree, and he’s on the bicycle, and he doesn’t move; I don’t know what happened,” the recipient of the call states. Day was riding his bike home from McArthur High School when he appeared to have been struck around Southwest 67th Avenue and 6th Street. According to Pembroke Pines Police, the teen was discovered lying in the grass in the vicinity and transported to Memorial Regional Hospital, where he was declared deceased.
In another 911 call released Monday, a neighbor reported finding the teen’s things that had been left at the site. “It was rainy and thundery outside, and there was a child who, for some reason, ended up on the side of the road with his bike, and we saw paramedics arrive, and they just took the kid, but they left his bookbag and bike behind. “We’re hoping the kid is okay,” the female caller says. She went on to say that she found his wallet and ID and wanted to return his stuff, unaware that he had died.
“We saw when he was taken away, we didn’t know what happened to him, we didn’t know if it was the lightening or something else that might have hit him, but we just noticed that nothing was left behind, so we didn’t want to leave it on the side of the road like that,” the individual who called me said. The teenager was a junior and a proud member of the school band. His family stated that he was the smallest of four children and the only male.
