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Michigan Man Drowns Trying To Retrieve Football From Lake

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A view of Lake Michigan. (Photo: Marisa Fusinski/WWJ) FILE

(WWJ) Police say a 29-year-old man drowned Monday in an Ottawa Community Park, near Grand Haven, when he swam out to retrieve a football.

Witnesses told police the man, from Kentwood, was attempting to get a football that had drifted out about 25 yards into the lake. He started to visibly struggle in the water. 


People on the shoreline took notice and took action, jumping into rafts. They were able to reach him and pulled him from the water to begin CPR.

The Ottawa County Sheriff's Office deputies responded at 5:45 p.m. June 22 to a report of an unresponsive man. Emergency personnel arrived on scene within minutes and began life-saving measures, but were unsuccessful.

This incident remains under investigation by the sheriff's office.