KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A 27-year-old Kansas City-area man has drowned while swimming at the Lake of the Ozarks during the Memorial Day holiday.
The Missouri Highway Patrol said 27-year-old William Gordon-Price of Overland Park, Kansas, drowned about 4:45 p.m. Monday near the Grand Glaize Bridge.
The Kansas City Star reports Gordon-Price had jumped into the water and
was swimming near a pontoon boat when he went under and did not resurface.
The Highway Patrol said the lake is about 60 feet deep in the area where
Gordon-Price went under. The patrol said he was operating the pontoon boat and was not wearing a safety device.
Rescuers used surface and side-scan sonar searches in hopes of finding him. Divers were brought in to search for him and continued into Monday night.
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