RedactedNarrative: On Thursday, August 25, 2016, victim, a 23-year-old, rented a Paddle Wheeler PW4 paddle boat from the Forsyth County Parks and Recreation at Kernersville Lake just outside the city limits of Kernersville, NC. A 76-year-old is the employee who rented the paddle boat to Victim. 
  
  At 11:45 AM, Victim rented a paddle boat and signed the forms to rent the boat for a duration that would last 1 hour.  By Lake Policy, each person who rents a boat or paddle boat is given a personal flotation device (PFD).  Employee noticed Victim travelling west along the dam of the Lake when he left the dock.  Around 1:30 PM, Employee, who had not seen or heard from Victim noticed the paddle boat up against the dam of the lake.  Using the Park's motorboat, he then went out to check on Victim but could not locate him on or near the boat.
  
  Employee called 911 and Forsyth County Sherriff's Office was dispatched.  When the scene was secured and the boat brought back to shore, the deputies recovered a small softshell cooler with some Gatorade and the wrapper of some kind of food that Victim had consumed while in the boat. They also recovered his wallet and keys from the boat as well the PFD, which was accessible, that was given to him by the park employee.
  
  Forsyth County Sherriff's Office began to conduct grid searches for Victim on the water and in the surrounding woods.  At the time Victim disappeared, it was a hot 93 degree Fahrenheit day with a humidity of 99%.  There was very little breeze and the water temperature was approximately 85 degrees Fahrenheit.  The search was halted at sunset and was scheduled to resume the next day when a sonar boat would be available to search the lake.
  
  On Friday morning, August 26, 2016, the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office along with other agencies, organized a search and recovery party.  Search parties were actively searching for Victim with sonar and divers from 7:00 AM until around 4:30 PM when FCSO called off the search for the day with plans of coming back with more sonar boats.  Around 6:30 PM the same day, Victim's body floated to the surface and was discovered.  He was located west of the boat dock on the far shore approximately 30 yards from where the boat was found.
  
  An autopsy was performed on Monday, August 29, 2016, and the Medical Examiner found that drowning was the cause of death.  It is uncertain if he went in the water voluntarily or fell overboard.  A toxicology report will be completed and returned in approximately 10 weeks.
  
  
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  PLEASE NOTE:  TYPE OF ACCIDENT IS UNKNOWN AS THERE IS NO WAY OF KNOWING IF THE OPERATOR FELL OVERBOARD OR LEFT THE BOAT VOLUNTARILY AS IS STATED ABOVE.
                         THE CAUSE OF THIS ACCIDENT IS ALSO "UNDETERMINED"  AS THERE WERE NO OTHER ON BOARD THE VESSEL WITH THE OPERATOR, NOR WERE THERE ANY WITNESSES TO THE ACCIDENT.
  
                         WHEN THE TOXICOLOGY REPORT IS RECEIVED, IT WILL BE ADDED TO THE REPORT IN REPORT BEAM SO IT WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE ADDED TO THIS BARD RECORD.
  
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