A man who drowned at Illgen Falls in Tettegouche State Park on the Fourth of July has been identified as a 25-year-old from Overland Park, Kan.
Hari Kiran Gowd Senagana was swimming with a group when he began to struggle, a witness told authorities. No one was able to help him because of the depth of the water, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
Authorities used the county’s ROV, a remotely operated vehicle for searching underwater, to locate and recover Senagana’s body 32 feet below the surface. The Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office has preliminarily ruled it an accidental drowning, according to a news release from the Sheriff’s Office.
Illgen Falls is a 40-foot waterfall on the Baptism River, more than an hour north of Duluth.
