Searchers located the body of a Charleston man who drown in Sutton Lake while boating with family members on Monday. Searchers from the Sutton Volunteer Fire Department, West Virginia DNR, and US Army Corps of Engineers located the remains of the 25-year-old man late Tuesday evening.
According to reports, the unidentified man was boating on a rental boat with family members in the area known as Wolf Creek. A small child went down a slide from the boat and became tangled in his life jacket. The victim jumped into the water to assist the child, which he did, before disappearing under the water.
Rescue officials were on scene within an hour, however efforts to recover the victim on Monday were curtailed at dark.
The search resumed early Tuesday, without a team of divers from Summersville, who assisted in the Monday’s search, as they were called back to their home county to search for a missing 40-year-old man at Summersville Lake.
Efforts were successful when a DNR diver located the missing man, tangled in a submerged tree inside the no-wake zone of Wolf Creek on Sutton Lake about 7:00 p.m.
This is the first time the newly formed West Virginia Department of Natural Resources Dive and Rescue Team have been utilized, just two weeks after their official launch.
The name of the victim has not been released as the investigation, headed by the DNR, is ongoing. Read next Tuesday’s Braxton Citizens’ News for more details.
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