A 5-year-old child died after an apparent drowning Wednesday on Jacksonville’s Westside in a neighborhood near the Clay County border, police said.
Rescue workers responded to a home in the 7600 block of Ortega Bluff Parkway about 5 p.m., but efforts to revive the child were unsuccessful, Sgt. Chuck Ford said.
He said the homeowner received a call from neighbors alerting him a child was missing, so he checked his backyard surveillance on his phone.