The Pinecrest family of the 8-year-old boy who was bitten by a shark in the Florida Keys Monday and had to have surgery to save his leg said the fish was a blacktip reef shark that rushed them while snorkeling.
The boy, Richard Burrows, was snorkeling with his father, David Burrows, 48, and his 10-year-old sister, Rose Burrows, around 3 p.m. at Horseshoe Reef, about four miles off Key Largo near John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park when the incident happened.
The family, through a public relations agency, issued a statement Wednesday that the boy continues to recover from surgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital, where Monroe County Fire Rescue paramedics flew him after he was rushed to shore on Labor Day…