The Tacoma Police Department is investigating the death of a 12-year-old boy on Friday afternoon that the department described as “suspicious” in the city’s South End.

Officers were sent to a home in the 4000 block of South Lawrence Street after receiving a report of an unresponsive child just after 3 p.m., according to a Facebook post from the Tacoma Police Department.

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Emergency responders from both the police department and Tacoma Fire arrived at the scene. The boy was pronounced dead by fire personnel.

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