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David Peltier of Richmond was pronounced dead at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters at 3:45 a.m. Sunday.

The attack severed the main artery in his left thigh and resulted in significant blood loss, a hospital spokesman said.

David and his father, Richard Peltier, a resident of Virginia Beach, were on a sandbar about 50 yards offshore at 6 p.m. when the shark attacked. The water was only 4 feet deep.

Witnesses said the father hit the shark over the head to try to get it to release his son.

"I mean you could actually see him fighting off the shark and sort of pushing the shark away and pulling the kid," one witness said.

"There were shark bites all along his leg. It also looked like the shark might have got him right inside the thigh. He lost a lot of blood," the witness continued.

"He had two brothers who also had their surfboards and they were just standing on the beach crying hysterically."

David was taken to Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital, then to the trauma unit at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, and finally to Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, where he died.

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