Jacksonville police using bloodhounds, drones and divers found a missing 2 1/2-year-old child unresponsive in a pond near the youngster's Westside home Friday night.

Life-saving efforts to revive the toddler at the scene were unsuccessful and the youngster was pronounced dead at a local hospital, Lt. Mike Silcox of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said at the scene.

The Sheriff's Office didn't identify the child who Silcox said had been reported missing about at 5:50 p.m. in the 1600 block of Avenger Lane near Normandy Boulevard and Herlong Road.

Home security camera video showed the direction the child was going. A Sheriff's Office bloodhound then tracked the toddler to one of several ponds in the neighborhood, he said.

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About 40 minutes after the search began, Silcox said officers pulled the child from the pond at 6:21 and immediately began CPR. The child was rushed to the hospital but was pronounced dead.

Because the investigation was in the preliminary stages, it wasn't known immediately how long the child might have been in the water.

The Sheriff's Office and the Florida Department of Children & Families are investigating the death.

Drowning is the leading cause of death for children age 1-4 years old according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The death is the second drowning of a Jacksonville child this year.

On Jan. 28, another toddler between the ages of 2 and 3 died after wandering into a swimming pool at their family's home in the Jacksonville Heights area, reported First Coast News, the Times-Union news partner.

This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Jacksonville police investigating drowning of 2 1/2-year-old child