RENTON, Wash. — A 26-year-old man was found dead in Lake Washington after friends summoned police and divers to a Renton park early Tuesday.
Renton Police were called to Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park where a group of people with flashlights were searching the water off the pier.
They told officers they believed they had found their friend, according to police.
Firefighters in dive gear found the man in the lake and brought him to shore, but he could not be revived despite life-saving efforts.
The King County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that his cause of death was asphyxia and drowning.
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