UPDATE: Missing teenage swimmer in Huntersville, NC. found dead
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Published: Apr. 28, 2019 at 5:43 PM EDT
A 13-year-old swimmer has been found deceased following a search around Mountain Island Lake after he fell off a boat on the water.
Huntersville Fire had search parties on the lake around Latta Plantation looking for the swimmer for nearly two hours before he was found around 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
Officials were able to find the boy close to the boat since it was anchored at the time of the accident.
No further information has been released at this time.
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