An Arizona osteopathic physician will face no criminal charges after wrongly pronouncing a living 18-month-old boy dead and clearing him for the hospital morgue, where a medical examiner's team found him breathing more than five hours later.
The boy nearly drowned in a backyard pool during a Super Bowl party in Gilbert on 8 Feb 2026, and staff at Mercy Gilbert Medical Center declared him dead at 18:20 despite officers and family reporting repeated gasps for air.
