RedactedNarrative: On August 14, 2016, around 2140 hours, Officer#1 responded to a call for a missing boater with Officer#2 and Corporal#1. The missing person was said to be Victim1. The information reported to the officers was a boater had been out on the Potomac River in the Dargan area but had not returned. Officer#1 checked the C & O Canal for signs of the boater while directing Maryland State Police Aviation's Trooper 3 Helicopter. Officer#1 arrived at the Dargan boat ramp to where he was taken to a boat dock for the residence. Officer#1 observed Washington County search and rescue and Maryland State Police searching for the subject.
  Officer#1 met with Uncle1, Cousin1, and Family Friend1. Officer#1 interviewed these three subjects on the dock where Victim1 was last seen going to. Cousin1 did most the talking. Cousin1 stated that Victim1 was at the residence visiting friends and family Cousin1 stated the group was having a good time together. The family did not know of any medications or illnesses that Victim1 had. Cousin1 stated that Victim1 had around 5 alcoholic beverages and dinner before Victim1 decided to go kayaking around 1745-1800 hours. Victim1 was going out on the kayak after a thunderstorm had passed through the area. The friends and family last saw Victim1 carrying Cousin1's kayak (A blue Acadia) to the boat dock. No one saw Victim1 launch the kayak or paddling the kayak in the water. Victim1 was described as being a balding, white male, average build, with a tattoo of the Chinese symbol for the year of the rat on his right calf. Cousin1 stated that Victim1 would go out alone and had experience in the area. Victim1 was last seen wearing black swimming shorts with a flower pattern on them. Cousin1 stated that Victim1 was not a strong swimmer. 
  Around 2000 hours, Victim1's friends and family began to worry as it was becoming dark. Around 2100 hours, Uncle1 called 911 to report Victim1 missing. Around 2200 hours, Family Friend1 located the blue Acadia kayak downstream of the dock that Victim1 was using. The kayak had a lifejacket attached it. Family Friend1 claimed the kayak was pulled up the boat ramp approximately 20 feet and was well out of the water. Family Friend1 was not sure who might have pulled the kayak out of the water. The kayak was approximately 3/4 of a mile downstream of Victim1's possible launch point.  Around 2330-2345, Cousin1 located the paddle used with the blue Acadia kayak. The paddle was located approximately 40 yards from the dock that Victim1 was to launch from. Officer#1 took witness statements from Cousin1, Uncle1, and Family Friend1. 
  Corporal#1 and Officer#1 stayed with the body of Victim1 until Mid- Atlantic Transport retrieved the body to transport the body for the autopsy. Sgt.#1 and Corporal#1 notified Victim1's mother and father.  
  All events occurred in Washington County, Maryland besides the events documented as happening at the residence in West Virginia.  This incident has been coded as a fall overboard