The United States Coast Guard announced on Sunday it would be suspending the search for a 7-year-old boy who went missing on Friday during a boating trip with two other passengers who were later found dead.

Suspending an active search for a missing child is an exceptionally difficult decision and is only made after the most exhaustive efforts have occurred,”

Image via Facebook Search and rescue crews are searching for a missing 7-year-old boy after finding the bodies of his father and a family friend. The three were boating near Dauphin Island in Alabama when their boat capsized.

A 7-year-old boy is missing and two people have been found dead following a boating trip in Alabama. The search for Hunter Slezak, 7, has been suspended after two bodies, identified as his father Michael Slezak,