The body of a teenager was recovered from Lake Pueblo State Park on Tuesday, marking the sixth person to die at the reservoir since May, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
Wildlife officers and a diver with the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office responded to reports of a possible drowning at Lake Pueblo just before noon Tuesday, according to a from the state wildlife agency.
Witnesses told investigators that a man without a life jacket went under in 23-foot-deep water about 200 feet from shore on the east end of the lake, near the dam, the news release stated.
State Park workers were on shore within two minutes of the notification, and two Parks and Wildlife boat crews were searching the reservoir within 15 minutes, officials said.
The victim’s body was recovered from the water shortly before 1 p.m. Tuesday. Wildlife officials said he was in his late teens.
The Pueblo County coroner’s office will identify the victim and the cause of death.
According to state wildlife officials, other deaths at Lake Pueblo State Park this year include:
- A man who on May 14 near Sailboard Beach.
- A fisherman who died after his boat overturned in high winds on May 30. Two other anglers on board .
- A man who died on June 7 after jumping into the reservoir in Rock Creek Cove. His friends and began CPR before calling 911.
- A man who drowned after he on June 19.
- And a woman who died in a boating accident near Denver Cove on July 19.
