Lauderhill police investigate drowning death found underwater on Saturday
A man was pulled from underwater in Lauderhill’s Enclave Place neighborhood after family members alerted police, but lifesaving efforts failed and the death remains under investigation.
Lauderhill police are investigating after an unidentified man was found underwater in the 5600 block of Enclave Place and later pronounced dead on scene. Officers responded about 5:19 p.m. Saturday, June 20, after family members told police he had been underwater for a period of time before they arrived.
Officers first searched the water but could not locate him, so Lauderhill Fire Rescue and the Sunrise Police Department Dive Team were called in. The dive team recovered the man from the water, and lifesaving efforts at the scene did not succeed.
Police said the Criminal Investigations Division and Crime Scene Investigators also responded, a sign the department is treating the death as an active investigation rather than a routine rescue call. The man has not been publicly identified, and investigators have not said how he ended up underwater or whether the incident involved a pool, pond or another water feature in the residential neighborhood.
The unanswered details on Enclave Place come as Broward County continues to see dangerous water emergencies beyond the city limits. In a separate recent Lauderhill case, a 9-year-old boy survived a near-drowning at an apartment complex pool after residents jumped in to help. Farther north in the county, a separate June drowning death involved a 4-year-old in North Lauderdale.
State and federal data show why those calls carry such urgency. The Florida Department of Health says drowning is the leading cause of unintentional death for children ages 1-4 in Florida, where pools, lakes, canals and ocean access make water safety a constant concern. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the annual age-adjusted drowning death rate in the United States was 1.31 deaths per 100,000 people during 2018-2021.
For Lauderhill investigators, the key questions now center on the water itself and the sequence of events before emergency crews reached the 5600 block of Enclave Place. Those answers will determine how this death is classified and what safety lessons, if any, the scene leaves behind.
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