Authorities have identified the body of a missing swimmer found in a Kansas lake. The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office spokesman says Zachariah Shepherd, 29, of Andover disappeared in the water around 2:00 a.m. Saturday as he tried to swim across the Lake Afton.
Shepherd had been camping at the lake over the weekend. The search began Saturday afternoon at the 258-acre man-made recreational lake in an area of Sedgwick County west of Wichita. His body was found around 1:20 a.m. Sunday.