Crime & Safety
9-Year-Old Boy Who Drowned In Lake Elsinore Identified By Coroner
A boy drowned in Lake Elsinore over the weekend, and a second child had to be rescued by a bystander, authorities said.
LAKE ELSINORE, CA — Authorities have identified a 9-year-old Palmdale boy who drowned in Lake Elsinore over the weekend.
A Riverside County Sheriff's Department dive team recovered the body of Dante Clark around 2:30 p.m. Sunday, authorities said.
The search for Clark began around 10:30 a.m. Sunday after deputies were called for a drowning at the lake's Launch Pointe Beach. Deputies were told several children were playing near the beach's docks when two began having trouble swimming, the sheriff's department said.
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A bystander brought one child ashore. Clark went underwater and didn't resurface.
The condition of the second child was not immediately known.
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Family members saw the boy struggling in the water and tried to help him before he went under, KCBS-TV reported.
Bystanders and the sheriff's dive team searched the lake area where Clark was last seen. His body was found four hours later.
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