RedactedNarrative: On Thursday, September 24, 2020, DNR Conservation Warden received a phone call from a Shawano resident, asking details about a recent drowning on Lulu Lake. The DNR Conservation Warden had no knowledge of the event.  Contact with the Shawano County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that there was a drowning on Lulu Lake on September 18, 2020.  DNR Warden spoke with Shawano County Sheriff’s Deputy, who confirmed that he was on scene and stated that the victim was deceased when he arrived on scene. 
  
  The victim’s john boat was very narrow and had an elevated seat in the stern of the vessel. Deputy stated the electric motor on the boat was locked in the up position, with weeds tangled in the prop. Deputy stated when they arrived the boat was capsized. 
  
  There were two lifejackets found in the vessel, there was an anchor in the boat that was attached to a line which was attached to the boat. Since the boat was capsized when he arrived, Deputy was not sure whether the vessel was anchored at the time it capsized, or if the capsizing caused the anchor to be dropped. Deputy stated the victim’s dog was found swimming in the lake near where the deceased victim was located.
  
  Deputy confirmed that none of the officers on scene completed a boat incident report and that they left the victim’s boat at the Lulu Lake Launch when they departed the scene.
  
  Witness statement indicated that on September 18, 2020 at roughly 1 in the afternoon, my wife and I were raking in the backyard, and heard someone yell for help. I heard him yell twice, and he yelled help. We looked out across the lake and saw a capsized boat. He was probably five feet away from his boat. My wife grabbed my lifejacket, and I grabbed my boat. I started rowing out there in my 12-foot john boat. By the time I got there, I saw his dog swimming around in a circle. I grabbed the dog, and the dog was swimming around him. He was about a foot and a half submerged. I grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him up. There was no pulse. He was a large man, probably over 250 pounds. I couldn’t pull him into the boat. Residents from the other side of the lake brought their pontoon boat. Together, both of us couldn’t pull him out of the water. We hollered for someone to call 911, which they did. I held onto him. The first responders arrived after half an hour or forty-five minutes. I continued holding him up by his arms, off the side of the boat. They confirmed he had no pulse at that time. The rescue team showed up about an hour after that. We drug him up to the boat landing. They put him on a body board and were able to drag him up to the boat landing. I observed his legs from about below his knees to his feet were wrapped up in lilly pads. 
  
  Neither the witnesses on scene or the responding officers observed what happened that caused the victim to enter the water.
  