WORCESTER, MASS. (WHDH) - A man has died after emergency crews pulled him from a lake in Worcester Wednesday afternoon.
Emergency crews from Worcester and Shrewsbury responded to Lake Quinsigamond for a water rescue around 3:40 p.m. and spent about two and a half minutes looking for the 32-year-old man, according to Shrewsbury Fire Department.
He was transported to a hospital just about a mile away but was later pronounced dead.
Jonathan Rodriguez said he was on the beach at the time and did not know anything was wrong until he heard a commotion just offshore among a small group of people.
Then, a man ran over to ask Rodriguez for help.
“His friend tried to go get him, he couldn’t get him, so that’s when they called the cops,” he recalled. “There was a lot of cops coming, I saw them over by the water but I didn’t see them take him out.”
Firefighters say divers were able to find the victim in the water quickly, but he had been in there for as long as 14 minutes.
The incident remains under investigation.
The area is a popular spot for both swimmers and boaters.
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