Monticello — A 17-year-old Ohio boy drowned early Friday, July 11 in the Faubush area
of Wayne County.
According to Wayne County Coroner Forrest Hicks, Lucas Pfander, 17, of
Dayton, Ohio, was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:45 a.m. Friday, several
hours after the family he was vacationing with discovered that he was
missing.
Hicks said that Pfander was visiting Lake Cumberland with a friend and
the friend's parents, and they had been staying on a houseboat since Sunday,
July 6.
The teenager was last seen alive at about 4 a.m. Friday, where he was
sleeping on an air mattress on the upper deck of the houseboat.
Hicks said that at approximately 7:30 a.m. Pfander's absence was
discovered and a search began for him, both on the boat and along the
shoreline.
A member of the group contacted Conley Bottom Resort to summons help.
Kentucky Water Patrol officers Jerrod Alley and Travis Neal responded, along
with the Wayne County Rescue Squad.
Pfander's body was located after a short search in about 16 feet of
water.
Hicks said after an examination of the body was performed at the scene,
Pfander was transported to the State Medical Examiner's Office for an
autopsy on Saturday morning.
A spokesman for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife told a
Dayton newspaper that Pfander may have fallen asleep on the upper deck of
the boat and fell over, hitting his head on the lower deck.
Pfander was a senior at Chaminade-Julienne High School in Dayton, where
he was president of the National Honor Society and was involved in
volleyball, swimming and cross country.
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July 15, 2008
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