Florida police: Teens filmed, laughed while man drowned

July 20 (UPI) -- A group of Florida teenagers watched and laughed as a man drowned in a pond -- even video-recording his death instead of trying to help, authorities said.

Their video shows Jamel Dunn struggling in the water before he finally succumbs. He drowned on July 9 and his body wasn't found for three days.

"You a [expletive] junkie," one of the teens shouts at Dunn. "Get out the water, you're going down!"

Another teen mockingly shouts that an alligator is coming before somebody else says, "We not fitting to help [you]! ... You should have never got in there!"

At one point in the video, a teen is heard asking friends if they are really "gonna sit right here and still..." before trailing off. Another teen responds: "Why? You afraid to see a dead person?"

Moments later, Dunn screams for help -- but some of the teens respond with laughter.

According to Florida Today, the teens did not report the drowning to police. Instead, Dunn's fiancee filed a missing person's report when he didn't come home. She later found the video on social media.

Police said Dunn went to the pond after an argument with his fiancee, where the teens watched him wade into the pond and began recording with a cellphone.

"The kids were at the park that day smoking marijuana and apparently saw him walk into the water. He walked in on his own," said Yvonne Martinez, spokeswoman for the Cocoa Police Department.

Simone Scott, Dunn's sister, said in a Facebook Live video that police told her the teens did not call 911 because they were afraid of getting in trouble for smoking marijuana.

Police said the teenagers did not commit a crime by refusing to help a dying man, and won't be charged.

"While the incident depicted on the recording does not give rise to sufficient evidence to support criminal prosecution under Florida statutes, we can find no moral justification for either the behavior of persons heard on the recording or the deliberate decision not to render aid to Mr. Dunn," the Brevard-Seminole State Attorney's Office said in a statement.

"I agree they don't have to help, but they should have called 911," Scott said.

"I feel like something should be done to them, probation or something," she added. "If they can just sit there and watch a man die before their eyes, imagine what they could do when they get older."