Man Drowns While Swimming In Beaver Lake
Posted: July 20, 2012 at 2:41 p.m.
Updated: July 20, 2012 at 8:48 p.m.
The Benton County Dive Team and the county coroner Friday at Beaver Lake, where a man is believed to have drowned.
Family members and strangers scoured the banks of Beaver Lake yelling “Jeffrey” on Friday afternoon.
A Benton County Sheriff's deputy looks across Beaver Lake as a woman cries hysterically Friday after Jeffrey Wayne Wall of Ro...
A woman cries hysterically Friday while talking to a Benton County Sheriff's Office deputy and members of the Beaver Lake Fir...
Margaret McCain; right; points out an area in Beaver Lake to deputy Ivan Torres of the Benton County Sheriff's Office where c...
Boaters drop a buoy about 20 to 30 yards offshore while assisting Benton County Sheriff's Office deputies and the Beaver Lake...
Members of the Benton County Dive Team ready gear to recover the body of a man Friday, July 20, 2012, at Beaver Lake.
At A Glance
2012 Drownings
There have been four drownings in Benton County this summer:
- Jerry Wall, 42, of Rogers drowned Friday in the Old Prairie Creek area of Beaver Lake.
- Dustin Ridenoure, 15, of Gateway, drowned June 2 near Indian Creek on Beaver Lake.
- Gildardo DeLeon Velazquez, 40, of Decatur, drowned June 3 at Crystal Lake near Decatur.
- Alfredo Caballero, 16, of Rogers, drowned May 15 in the Horseshoe Bend area of Beaver Lake.
Source: Staff Report
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