COCOA, FL (WESH/CNN) - Cell phone video posted on social media shows a Florida man drowning in a pond and has the voices of teens who stood by recording and mocking him and laughing.
No one called for help, and the man died.
Police call the teens' actions "beyond heartless."
The video shows Jamel Dunn, 31, his head barely visible, getting into deeper and deeper water July 9.
Five teenagers were recording it, and in the background here is some of what is heard: "We're not gonna help your (expletive). Shouldn't have got in. Let him drown, what the heck."
Police say they don't know why Dunn entered the water. But when he did, the teens were watching him from a bank.
Yvonne Martinez of the Cocoa Police Department said: "Laughed at him, told him that they weren't going to help him or rescue him, and taunted and laughed at him the entire time."
"You gotta understand." "You shoulda never got in there!"
Rondanielle Willams, the dead man's fiancée, said: "It broke my heart for someone to just sit there, of age, to know if someone needs help - they're crying out for help in the video - and you just do nothing."
Williams was at the retention pond five days later when Dunn's body was found.
"How could nothing in your heart tell you not to do anything when someone's crying out for help and you're telling them you're not going to help them," Williams said.
The state attorney's office released a statement condemning the video but saying prosecutors could find no law that had been violated.
The five teens who made and posted the video have been identified and interviewed, but there is no formal punishment.
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