A 16-year-old student from McArthur High School has died after being found unresponsive in Pembroke Pines on Wednesday evening, authorities confirmed Thursday.
Pembroke Pines police said the teenage boy, identified Friday morning as Cameron Day, was riding his bike home and was possibly struck by lightning around 5 p.m.
A witness told Local 10 News that Cameron was sitting on his bike while under a tree when the incident occurred.
"One second I see him standing up just fine, the other I was fixing something here in the corner (and) I heard a really loud lightning," said Zandra Laguno, who lives nearby. "I thought it hit right here next to me because it's like the loudest lightning I've ever heard and it was, like, really close."
Fire rescue crews were dispatched to the area after receiving reports of the student lying motionless in the grass near the 600 block of Southwest 67th Avenue.
