The United States Coast Guard announced on Sunday it would be suspending the search for a 7-year-old boy who went missing on Friday during a boating trip with two other passengers who were later found dead.

The boy, his father Michael Slezak, and another man, Sam Wooley, were shrimping near Pelican Bay on a 22-foot boat named Marty Ann. Search and rescue teams and the U.S. Coast Guard began searching when they failed to return to shore.

Suspending an active search for a missing child is an exceptionally difficult decision and is only made after the most exhaustive efforts have occurred,”

U.S. Coast guard sector mobile is looking for any information on the marty ann, a 20-foot white cuddy cabin with 3 people on board. The

The search for Hunter Slezak, 7, has been suspended after the bodies of his father and a family friend were recovered in Alabama the U.S. Coast Guard stated in a release