{"id":822273,"date":"2026-07-24T04:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822273\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T04:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:01:14","slug":"body-of-2nd-brother-who-drowned-in-nutimik-lake-has-been-recovered-rcmp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822273\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of 2nd brother who drowned in Nutimik Lake has been recovered: RCMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>After several days of searching Nutimik Lake, the body of Aaron Au Ramirez, 13, has been recovered, Manitoba RCMP say.<\/p>\n<p>The boy had jumped into the water near Sturgeon Falls on Saturday after his brother Maximo, 10, slipped on some rocks and fell into the lake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a news release issued Thursday evening, Lac du Bonnet RCMP confirmed Aaron&#8217;s body was found in the water at 7:45 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maximo&#8217;s body was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/maximo-au-ramirez-body-found-9.7280388\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">found Wednesday<\/a> evening.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP said the family has been notified and thanked the many volunteers and supporting agencies that helped locate the two boys.<\/p>\n<p>Allison Baker-Thiessen, the owner of Nutimik Lodge, where the boys&#8217; family has been staying, described the search as &#8220;a fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said a community member found Aaron&#8217;s body at the same time of day and in the same place where they found Maximo the day before. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A man on a boat used to look for the two boys that had drowned in the lake.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784865674_219_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7777777777777777\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>A boat returns to the shore of Nutimik Lake during search efforts Thursday for Aaron Au Ramirez. The body of the 13-year-old was eventually found, at the same time and place where his younger brother&#8217;s body was recovered on Wednesday. (CBC)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got the community together, we got all the emergency teams together. We had countless hours of people helping out and doing wellness checks and all the support in so many different angles,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without all these people standing beside us \u2026 we couldn&#8217;t do anything.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Baker-Thiessen said while Aaron&#8217;s family is glad to have found his body, they are in a lot of pain. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is going to be a very challenging time for them,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-822273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}