{"id":190063,"date":"2026-05-12T11:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/190063\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:23:10","slug":"coast-guard-recovers-bodies-of-child-adult-from-waters-of-lake-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/190063\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast guard recovers bodies of child, adult from waters of Lake Erie"},"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 1 minute<\/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>A seven-year-old child and a 53-year-old adult from Norfolk County were found dead Monday afternoon in the waters of Lake Erie near St. Williams, Ont., near Turkey Point, according to Ontario Provincial Police.<\/p>\n<p>Norfolk County OPP, along with the Canadian Coast Guard, responded around 3:45 p.m. to reports of overdue boaters near Townline Street.<\/p>\n<p>Police said emergency crews searched the area before the bodies were discovered by a passing boater about two nautical miles from shore. The coast guard later recovered both bodies from the water.<\/p>\n<p>OPP Const. Ed Sanchuk said investigators are focused on supporting the victims&#8217; loved ones as the community grapples with the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just wanted to take this opportunity to send out our deepest and sincerest condolences to all family members and friends that are affected by this tragedy,&#8221; Sanchuk said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a father, I can&#8217;t imagine what you&#8217;re going through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Members of the OPP traffic incident management and enforcement team are assisting with the investigation. Police have not released additional details about the circumstances surrounding the deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-190063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}