The United States Coast Guard announced on Sunday it would be suspending the search for a 7-year-old boy who went missing on Friday during a boating trip with two other passengers who were later found dead.

Authorities are desperately searching for a 7-year-old boy after his father and a family friend were found dead in a bay where the trio went boating near Dauphin Island in Alabama Friday. Little Hunter Slezak still hasn’t been recovered three days after he went out on his first shrimping trip on Pelican Bay with his dad and a friend on a 22-foot vessel,

The boy, his father Michael Slezak, and another man, Sam Wooley, were shrimping near Pelican Bay on a 22-foot boat named Marty Ann. Search and rescue teams and the U.S. Coast Guard began searching when they failed to return to shore.

In a devastating update on Sunday, December 2, 2024, the U.S. Coast Guard announced they were suspending the active search for Hunter Slezak (7), after recovering the bodies of two missing boaters.

Image via Facebook Search and rescue crews are searching for a missing 7-year-old boy after finding the bodies of his father and a family friend. The three were boating near Dauphin Island in Alabama when their boat capsized.

The search for Hunter Slezak, 7, has been suspended after two bodies, identified as his father Michael Slezak, 40, and his friend Sam Wooley, 69, were recovered south of Dauphine Island, Ala., on Sunday, Dec. 1, the U.S. Coast Guard stated in a release.