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Boy drowns in Myrtle Beach hotel pool

Posted: 03.09.2012 at 1:20 PM

Updated: 03.09.2012 at 2:00 PM

Tracy is NewsChannel 15's Executive Producer.

MYRTLE BEACH -- Myrtle Beach police say an 8-year-old Gaston, North Carolina boy died Friday after he went under water in a hotel swimming pool and drowned.

Horry County Deputy Coroner Tamara Williard says Jaylen Stephens was pronounced dead at the hospital at 11:48 a.m.

It happened at the indoor pool at Monterey Bay Suites on 68th Avenue North.

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