UPDATE:

The victim in a Sunday drowning at Milford Lake has been identified by the Geary County Sheriff.  The victim was Jonathan Rivera, 28, Grandview Plaza.

Sheriff Tony Wolf said Deputies responded to the dead end on the North Milford Lake Road for an individual yelling for help from the middle of the cove. Upon arrival it was determined an individual was trying to swim across the cove when he became exhausted and went under the water. The individual, now identified as Jonathan Rivera, never resurfaced. Other people nearby began searching for the victim.

The Geary County Sheriff’s Department, assisted by the Corps of Engineers, Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, Geary County Fire Department and multiple civilians responded with side scan sonar equipment to search the area where the victim was last seen. Mission Township Fire provided a dive team to assist with the search. At approximately 12:45 a.m. Monday the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism water patrol unit located the deceased victim.  An autopsy will be scheduled for later this week.

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Authorities have confirmed the body of a drowning victim at Milford Lake has been recovered.

The name of the victim has not yet been released pending notification of next of kin. Sheriff Tony Wolf did confirm that the 28-year old man was a Grandview Plaza resident who had just gotten out of the military.

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There has been a drowning incident at Milford Lake.

Sunday afternoon authorities responded to the situation, which Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf confirmed occurred at the south end of the lake and at the north end of Milford Lake Road. Wolf said the victim was a 28-year old man. His identity has not yet been released.

Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism authorities were using boats Sunday evening to drag the lake to try to find the body of the victim.

Wolf said, “We received a 911 call of a subject out there swimming in the lake. He went down and they couldn’t find him anymore. When we got out there on scene, story was that he tried to swim across the cove and he was unable to make it, and he went down and they didn’t see him any more.”

Wolf reported that the water in the area where the incident occurred is about nine feet deep, but the water is muddy making the visibility about zero at that location.