RedactedNarrative: On 7/24/22 at approximately 9:25pm, a boating incident occurred on lake norman just west of the peninsula yacht club.  The vessel was a yamaha jetboat.  There were two passengers.  At the time of the incident, the vessel was drifting and victim jumped from the swim platform at the stern of the vessel and did not resurface.
  
  The vessel and its occupants left westport marina at approximately 7:00pm for an evening cruise when it got dark.  They decided to head back to westport marina to go get dinner.  Operator was operating the vessel.  They became lost and stopped near the mouth of the peninsula yacht club to look at their gps to figure out their location.  The shallow water alarm began to sound and victim became agitated and grabbed the keys from the ignition cutting off the boat.  
  
  Both operator and subject2 stated that victim was intoxicated.  Victim then proceeded to jump off the stern of the boat, which neither operator nor subject2 witnessed.  This happened at approximately 9:25pm.  The water temperature was 85 degrees and the air temperature was 80 degrees.  Victim did not resurface and operator could not locate the keys to the boat to look for him.  Subject2 called 911 at 9:35pm and the vessel proceeded to drift to the shoreline located near fishermans rest court.  The wind was between 10-15 mph sustained that evening.  Cornelius police department and huntersville fire department responded to the area and set up an incident command post.  Victim was located by huntersville fire department at 10:45pm.  He was deceased at the time of recovery.
  
  Victim's certificate of death states that he had blunt force trauma to the head and his primary cause of death was drowning.  He also had acute ethanol intoxication.  The medical examiner was unable to prove a blood alcohol concentration at the time of this report.  There were no injuries to the other occupants on board.  No one will be charged as a result of this incident.
  
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