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CRIME & SAFETY
Teen Dies In Drowing Incident in Oscoda County
A Luzerne boy and student of Mio AuSable Schools in Oscoda County died in a drowning incident Tuesday afternoon. Police say the 15-year-old, identified as Ray Reeder, was swimming in Smith Lake at Smith Lake Park Beach in Comins Township around 2:45 P.M. when he went under the water and didn’t resurface. Emergency responders from the Oscoda County Sheriff’s Department and the DNR searched for about 90 minutes before the boy was recovered. He was taken to Grayling Munson Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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