Pelletier was a recent graduate of Fuquay-Varina High School in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, WTVD reported. Pelletier was last seen on August 1 while on a family vacation in Englewood, Florida, before leaving around 1:30 a.m. to travel with his cousins toward Brevard County to visit more family, according to the CCSO.

The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office said they have “preliminarily determined” a body found Friday belongs to 18-year-old Giovanni Pelletier, the teen who went missing from Charlotte County last week,

Giovanni Pelletier, missing since Aug 1 in Manatee County, was found dead, his mother confirmed. Cause of death remains under investigation.

The body of Giovanni Pelletier, the North Carolina teen who vanished while on vacation in Florida, has been found, according to his family, while authorities have yet to confirm the identity of the deceased.

The body was found in a retention pond at the southbound off-ramp of Interstate 75 and SR 70, ABC News reported. Manatee County is near Bradenton, Florida, along Interstate 75. Pelletier was with his family in Englewood, before his disappearance.

The 18-year-old boy who went missing in Florida earlier this month has been confirmed dead Giovanni Pelletier's family confirmed his death to ABC 11 on Aug. 9, one day after a decomposing body was discovered near the area where the teenager was last seen The young man,

More than a week after the disappearance of Giovanni Pelletier, the teenager who was last seen in Mims, Florida, authorities have found a body in the area where he went missing.

The mother of North Carolina teen Giovanni Pelletier has revealed who found his body after he went missing, and asked the internet to “stop spreading lies.”