Recent Steamboat Springs HS grad dies after apparent electrocution on VA lake [Video]

BEDFORD COUNTY, Va. — A recent graduate from Steamboat Springs High School died on July 4 after an apparent electrocution on a Virginia lake.

Early in the morning on July 4, the dispatch center for Bedford County in Virginia received a call about a possible drowning at Smith Mountain Lake, according to a Bedford County Sheriff’s Office press release obtained by Steamboat Radio and shared with Denver7. The lake is southeast of Roanoke and about 30 miles north of the Virginia-North Carolina state line.

The press release reads that when authorities arrived on the scene, the victim’s family and friends explained they had seen the victim in distress in the water, but when two of them jumped in to help him, they felt a shock. They were able to get him out of the water and started CPR.

The two people who went in the water to help him were …