Published on June 10 | Updated on June 11
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The body of the 14-year-old boy who drowned in the ocean during a class trip to Wildwood earlier this month has been recovered.
Wildwood police said Davoris Carter III’s body was found on the beach at the Coast Guard Training Center in Cape May on Wednesday.
On June 1, Carter went on the beach trip with the Delta School, a school for children with special needs in Philadelphia. The school said there were six chaperones supervising the six children on the trip. Police said there were no lifeguards on duty that day; they don’t report for duty until mid-June.
The boy’s mother, Shyara Hill, said she wasn’t even aware that the kids would go in the ocean.
“The weather, when I got out there, it was cold. Why was the decision to go in the water? Where were the people who were supposed to be there supervising? No protection, life jackets, or something,” she said.
Hill said her son loved hockey and basketball and wanted to become a marine biologist. He also had considered becoming a policeman or a firefighter.
“Someone has to be held accountable [for] his life. He had plans,” she said.
Authorities are still investigating the incident.
