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Manatee County Sheriff Rick Wells said the medical examiner has not determined how Giovanni Pelletier died, and toxicology results have not been returned.

A family friend found the 18-year-old's partially submerged body in a retention pond in Manatee County on Aug. 8.

Wells showed video during a press conference on Tuesday morning that showed the teen running by himself at a fast pace toward the pond where his body was later found.

BRADENTON, Fla. - More than one week after 18-year-old Giovanni Pelletier was found dead in a Manatee County retention pond , the sheriff’s office is releasing video that sheds more light on what he was doing before he disappeared earlier this month.

The video was shown during a press conference on Tuesday, and it shows Pelletier running, almo

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