NewsSeptember 4, 2007
At least four Labor Day weekend drownings in Missouri
SMITHVILLE, Mo. (AP) -- A Kansas City man is dead after a failed attempt to help two girls who got into trouble while swimming in Smithville Lake. The Missouri State Water Patrol says 20-year-old Jorge Hernandez-Garcia drowned late Monday afternoon after going into the lake to help the girls who had stepped into water over their heads. Officers said Hernandez-Garcia went underwater and did not resurface...
SMITHVILLE, Mo. (AP) -- A Kansas City man is dead after a failed attempt to help two girls who got into trouble while swimming in Smithville Lake.
The Missouri State Water Patrol says 20-year-old Jorge Hernandez-Garcia drowned late Monday afternoon after going into the lake to help the girls who had stepped into water over their heads. Officers said Hernandez-Garcia went underwater and did not resurface.
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His body was found in about 8 feet of water. The girls made it to shore.
The Smithville drowning is one of at least four statewide during the Labor Day weekend. Two men drowned in separate incidents at a rock quarry in Fredericktown, about 60 miles south of St. Louis.
And a St. Louis man drowned in Lake of the Ozarks Saturday night.
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