A 31-year-old Elgin, Illinois man drowns on Geneva Lake over the weekend.
According to a news release from Geneva Lake Law Enforcement, just after 7:00 Sunday evening, 911 dispatchers got a call about a possible drowning near Big Foot Beach in the town of Linn on Geneva Lake.
First responders arrived to find that Antionio F. Delasancha was boating with his family, when he jumped in the water without a life jacket to retrieve his 11-year-old son, who had started to drift while swimming near the boat with a personal flotation device.
While swimming toward his son, Delasancha went under the surface in about 45 feet of water and never came back up.
First responders located Delasancha’s body using sonar technology on Sunday night but the Walworth County Sheriff’s Office Dive Team wasn’t able to recover the body until about 8:30 Monday morning.
The incident remains under investigation.
