Shark in Miami Beach: A Minnesota couple says their 9-year-old son was bitten by a shark as he body surfed in Miami Beach.
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — A 9-year-old Minnesota boy was bitten by a shark as he body surfed in Miami Beach over the weekend, his parents said.
Kristine Weiskopf told WPLG she and her son Jay were in the water for only a few minutes when the shark bit the boy.
“I was holding his hand the whole time and he was kind of body surfing a little bit and he had fallen on his stomach,” she said.
When she pulled him up, she said she saw a chunk of skin missing from his shoulder.
“He just said, ‘Ow,’ and I looked down and there was about a 4-foot gray shark just kinda swimming away, so I just scooped him up and ran him up the beach,” she said.
A Miami Beach Fire Rescue crew took the child to the hospital where surgeons closed the wound, his mother said. Read more from ABC News.
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