By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
Authorities said yesterday 18-year-old Rashawn J. Hale-Moody was trying to cross Alder Lake with friends by holding onto a log when he slipped under.
“The male yelled for help before going under water and not resurfacing,” Thurston County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Ray Brady said in a news release.
The lake is at the intersection of Lewis, Thurston and Pierce counties.
The Mineral Fire Department was called on Friday afternoon to the area, at the end of Pleasant Valley Road and when they arrived deputies from Pierce County already had a boat in the water and there were numerous people at the site; an old campground.
The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said it happened in Pierce County. Pierce County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Ed Troyer said the young man was not wearing a life vest.
Dive teams from Thurston and Pierce counties searched over the weekend and located his body on Sunday afternoon. Authorities initially reported Hale-Moody was 17 years old.
A 17-year-old boy from Port Orchard who fell into the Ohanapecosh River farther east in Lewis County and was swept away earlier on Friday has not been found.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter