gulf shores: 16-year-old drowns off Gulf Shores

GULF SHORES, Ala. - A 16-year-old Baldwin County boy spending Sunday afternoon with family at a Gulf Shores public beach drowned in the Gulf of Mexico.

Fernando Juarez of Loxley drowned off the beach at the end of Alabama 59, said Baldwin County Coroner Huey Mack Sr. He went missing shortly before 4 p.m., before the drowning was discovered, Mack said.

An autopsy was planned.

Information from: Press-Register, http://www.al.com/mobileregister