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Family Seeks Answers After Boy Dies At Summer Camp

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MIAMI GARDENS (CBSMiami) - The family of a boy, who collapsed while at a summer camp Wednesday, is grieving, looking for answers as to what happened to the 10-year-old.

Daijon Mullings' mother, Martina Mullings, and aunt, Alethea Mullings, have many questions.

"We need answers. We don't know what happened. We are getting conflicting information," said Alethea Mullings. "We don't know who was watching him and if he was being supervised at the time."

She told CBS4's Peter D'Oench, "We spoke to some parents who said there was a spider bite like a spider bit him. Then I spoke to someone, a child, who said he was sitting on the bleachers and he slipped and bumped his head and then he had a seizure. We are trying to get to the bottom of this. This park is where my sister paid money to have him registered and this was just his third day."

Click here to watch Peter D'Oench's report. 

Alethea Mulings said that her and her sister won't give up until they get some answers.

She said, "I feel like if they would have been supportive, they had nothing to hide and they would be able to provide us with a step-by-step with whatever happened. We are not going to make this go away. My nephew just can't be buried. He died with no answers. I can't live with myself like that and I refuse to let my sister go through this and just not know what happened."

"He was a good kid," said Alethea Mullings. "He loved basketball. We are human beings and put yourself in my sister's shoes and our shoes. This could be somebody else's child. How would you feel to be told that he had a seizure when he had no medical issues. If he were supervised properly, I wonder if he would still be here today. We just don't know what the process was."

The child's mother, Martina Mullings, said "If they got him help when they saw him, he would have been alive today. He would have come home with me. But he's not. He's laying in somebody's morgue."

She said her son collapsed for unknown reasons while at Scott Park around 11 a.m. A summer camp staffer found him.

"He was playing and he was found slumped over on the bleachers.  So how he went from playing to being slumped over on the bleachers, that he had a seizure.  He is 10.  He never had a seizure," said Mullings.  "I was asking them what was wrong with him and they couldn't tell me."

Crews rushed the child to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

"They told me they couldn't resuscitate him. It was too late," said Mullings.

His mother said he had started city-sponsored summer camp on Monday.

Investigators are waiting for the results of the autopsy to determine what caused his death.

A detective with the City of Miami Gardens, along with councilwoman Barbara Jordan, paid the mother a visit on Wednesday evening.

The City of Miami Gardens issued a statement on the incident saying in part, "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the child's family in this understandably difficult time."

City officials are not commenting on camera. When D'Oench tried to speak with staffers at the park, an employee told him to leave. And when he tried to visit the Parks and Recreation Director at City Hall, he was told he was not allowed to visit him.

Martina Mullings is now upset at park officials whom she says have provided her with little information.

"I just want answers. I want to know what happened to him. Who saw what happened to him," said Mullings.

Amid questions, his family grieves for their loss.

"Every time I see him, I just expect a big hug but it's not there anymore," said his cousin Chanel Thelusma.

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