Crime & Safety
Police Divers Pull Body of Drowning Victim from Waters Off Kirkland Park
Dive and marine teams from Kirkland, Mercer Island, Seattle and King County recovered the body of a man in his 40s to 50s who apparently drowned during a family outing at O.O. Denny Park on Wednesday evening.
The body of a 54-year-old man was pulled from the the waters of Lake Washington off Kirkland's O.O. Denny Park just after 10 p.m. Wednesday night.
“He was at some type of family activity and might have simply gone after a ball in the water to retrieve it,” said Kirkland Police spokesman Sgt. Rob Saloum. “He had some difficulty and went under. Either family or bystanders went in to rescue him, but he had gone down too deep. Rescue crews helped some of those people out of the water.”
Kirkland Police had both sides of the lakeside park on Holmes Point Drive blocked and were turning away motorists. Several aid cars, fire engines, ladder trucks and police squad cars filled the park beginning at about 8:40 p.m.
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The victim's wife and another person were helped to shore by police divers. She and the other person helped ashore, a bystander, were attempting to help the man who drowned.
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