Teen stepbrothers who drowned at park were found holding onto each other

“Using flashlights and high intensity lights, they were able locate them below the water,” Major Matthew Gagne, with the Sanford Police Department, told WMTW.

“We don’t know if they were jumping or just swimming because we don’t know exactly what time they went in. We assume they were probably by themselves as well because we had no calls from that area that anybody was in distress or actively drowning.

“There was probably a one- or two-mile-an-hour current, too, so that can change where they were located.”

The loss of the boys will, of course, have been unfathomable to their family, but perhaps a small grain of solace can be taken from the fact that they were found holding onto each other.Continue reading…