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Family of missing teenager found in Manatee County spoke about his death

Family of missing teenager found in Manatee County speaks about his death
Missing 18-year-old Giovanni Pelletier
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  • The family of an 18-year-old found dead in a Manatee County retention pond spoke out about his death.
  • The Manatee County Sheriff's Office found Giovanni Pelletier off of I-75 and State Road 70 on Friday, Aug. 8.
  • We are the Essentials is an organization of private investigators that helped search for missing people, and they took on this case and helped look for him.
  • Giovanni is from North Carolina and vanished while vacationing in Englewood.
  • The circumstances surrounding his disappearance are still unclear.

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