PINCKNEYVILLE, Ill. (WSIL) -- One person is dead after police said a man swam towards a drifting boat in the Pinckneyville City Lake over the weekend.

The Pinckneyville Police Department said a 36-year-old Mt. Vernon man "launched" his boat into the Pinckneyville City Lake on September 27, at 6:15 a.m. Police said the boat began to drift into "open water" and that's when Jedidiah Loman, 35 of Bluford, started swimming from the ramp towards the boat.

Multiple agencies responded to the lake after the report of the man in the water. Pinckneyville Police said a dive team later found the body of Loman in an area of the lake 13 feet deep.

Assisting the Pinckneyville Police Department in the death investigation was the Pinckneyville Fire Department, the Perry County Sheriff's Office, Pinckneyv

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