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The 10 year old boy buried in a sandbox by his friends has died. Apparently, they saw the stunt on a cartoon and didn’t realize the struggles of the boy were serious.

Codey Porter, the 10-year-old boy buried headfirst in a sandbox, died Monday afternoon at Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center in Seattle.

On Saturday, the Everett-area boy was playing with about five other children, ages 8 to 10, when the others buried him in a sandbox of a family friend in the 13800 block of 59th Avenue Southeast.

“He was playing, and he was buried and when [the other children] realized he wasn’t breathing, they dug him out,” said Rebecca Hover, spokeswoman for the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.

Cody Porter, a fifth grader in Everett, Washington, suffered a tragic accident while playing with his friends in a backyard sandbox. They were burying Porter in the sand when they realized he was not breathing so they dug him out and ran for help.

Cody’s half-brother, 30-year-old Joshua Quantrille, said the boy was playing with Quantrille’s three sons and other children on Saturday in the back yard of a home belonging to a family friend, according to an Associated Press report.

Quantrille said his children told him Cody came up with the idea that they should bury him, head first, in the sand.

Quantrille said the children came up with the idea from a cartoon they watch on television, the Associated Press reported.

Quantrille also said Cody was buried about from his head to his chest. At some point, he began thrashing around, but the children apparently thought he was playing. They then dug him out and called for help.