Cunningham's 2-year-old son dies in hot tub

The 2-year-old son of former Eagles quarterback Randall Cunningham died in what authorities said Wednesday apparently was a backyard hot-tub accident.

The Clark County coroner's office identified the child as Christian Cunningham and said the cause of death was pending.

Las Vegas Police Officer Marcus Martin, a department spokesman, said the death appeared to have been an accidental drowning, but authorities still were investigating.

Cunningham, 47, is an ordained minister and pastor of a church six blocks off Las Vegas Boulevard that he runs with his wife, Felicity. Christian Cunningham was the youngest of their four children.

Messages left by the Associated Press for the family at the church and Cunningham's house were not immediately returned.

Cunningham was out of town Tuesday, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which first reported the boy's death.

Martin said police were called late Tuesday afternoon to Cunningham's home in southeast Las Vegas after an adult at the house with several other children found the boy in the hot tub and began trying to resuscitate him.

The child was pronounced dead less than an hour later at St. Rose Dominican Hospital Siena campus in nearby Henderson, Nev.

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