Chesterfield County, VA _ The Chesterfield County Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services responded Friday evening at 7:16 p.m. for the report of a swimmer that had gone under the surface of the water and did not resurface per witness accounts. The swimmer was described as a black male wearing blue swim shorts. SCUBA Rescue Team members searched the river, around the area of the 21600 block of Chesterfield Avenue, until approximately 9:00 p.m. before darkness halted their operations.
Chesterfield Fire and EMS, along with Chesterfield Police and Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, resumed operations this morning at 9:30 a.m. At approximately 11:25 a.m. divers located the body of the missing swimmer in the Appomattox River. The death investigation will be handled by Chesterfield Police.