{"id":11109,"date":"2026-06-26T12:52:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=11109"},"modified":"2026-06-26T12:52:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:52:31","slug":"boy-dies-on-first-day-learning-how-to-swim-at-summer-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=11109","title":{"rendered":"Boy dies on first day learning how to swim at summer camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 9-year-old boy died on his first day learning to swim at a Virginia summer camp \u2014 devastating his mom, who demanded answers about the baffling tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>The child, King Overton, was unresponsive when he was pulled from a pool at Swim RVA in Chamberlayne and given CPR at around 2:30 p.m Monday, according to Henrico County Police and camp staffers.<\/p>\n<p>He was rushed to the hospital, where he died,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.12onyourside.com\/2026\/06\/16\/king-was-our-everything-mom-responds-9-year-olds-death\/\"> NBC\u2019s Channel 12<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--container ad--inline d-block d-none-lg ad--background\" data-float=\"\">\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper\">\n<p>I\u2019m devastated. I\u2019m numb. I\u2019m starting to get mad. It\u2019s just a bunch of emotions all built at once,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.12onyourside.com\/2026\/06\/18\/im-devastated-im-numb-mother-remembers-9-year-old-who-died-henrico-swim-camp\/\"> LaTaisha Johnson said <\/a>of her son\u2019s death Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 9-year-old boy died on his first day learning to swim at a Virginia summer camp \u2014 devastating his mom, who demanded answers about the baffling tragedy. The child, King Overton, was unresponsive when&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11110,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11109\/revisions\/11110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}