MILFORD TWP. (WWJ) – A young Indiana man is dead after drowning while swimming with two friends in Oakland County Sunday evening.
Joshua Auxier of Fountain City, Indiana, was pulled from the water of Sears Lake in Milford Township sometime after 8 p.m. Sunday, the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office said.
The sheriff’s office says Auxier and two friends were trying to reach a floating swimming platform in the lake, about 25 feet from the shore when Auxier went under just after 8 p.m. and didn’t resurface.
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Dive Team and the Milford Township Township Police and Fire Departments were called to the lake on the report of a possible drowning.
Divers found Auxier in about 15 feet of water.
He was taken to the shore, where CPR efforts were unsuccessful. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
An autopsy on Monday determined the cause of death was accidental drowning.
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