BUTLER COUNTY — A man is dead following a drowning in Butler County Tuesday night.
The Butler County Coroner’s Office identified the man Wednesday afternoon as Joel Vasquez-Diaz, 21, of Dayton.
A water rescue team from the St. Clair Township Fire Department was dispatched to Antenen Nature Preserve at around 7:30 p.m. after a person went into the water but never came out, according to our news partner WCPO in Cincinnati.
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Vasquez-Diaz was reportedly fishing and swimming with a group of people when he dove into Four Mile Creek and did not resurface, according to the Butler County Sheriff’s Office.
The water rescue team was able to pull him from the water, but he did not survive.
The incident is under investigation by the Butler County Sheriff’s Office.
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