US Coast Guard Suspends Search for a 7-Year-Old Alabama Boy Missing in the Gulf of Mexico

US Coast Guard Suspends Search for a 7-Year-Old Alabama Boy Missing in the Gulf of Mexico
The U.S. Coast Guard recovered the bodies of two boaters off the Alabama coast but suspended the search for a missing 7-year-old boy after combing the area over the weekend. Screenshot via Google Map
The Associated Press
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DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala.—The U.S. Coast Guard recovered the bodies of two boaters off the Alabama coast but suspended the search for a missing 7-year-old boy after combing the area over the weekend.

Searchers were unable to find Hunter Slezak, 7, who was on a boat that went missing Friday. The search was suspended Sunday night after rescue crews searched an area roughly the size of Delaware, Coast Guard officials wrote in a news release.