Rhode Island
25-year-old drowns in Charlestown
CHARLESTOWN, R.I. (WJAR) — A 25-year-old Narragansett man died Sunday after a canoe overturned while he and one other were fishing on School House Pond, according to Charlestown police.
Police said the two men were in a fiberglass canoe about 100 yards from shore when it overturned. One man swam safely back to land, but the other, identified as Jordan Monroe, 25, of Narragansett, disappeared beneath the water.
Emergency crews, including Charlestown police, U.S. Fish and Wildlife officers, and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management Environmental Police, responded to the scene and searched the pond.
Martha Konstandinidis reports on the death of a man at a pond in Charlestown. (WJAR)
Authorities said Monroe was eventually found a considerable distance offshore and taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police said neither man was wearing a life jacket. Investigators have not determined what caused the canoe to overturn and what Monroe’s cause of death was.
The drowning happened at School House Pond Beach, a swim-at-your-own-risk freshwater facility on Narragansett Indian Tribal land.
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The incident remains under investigation.