PATTON, Mo. (WSIL) -- A 30-year-old is dead after a drowning in Bollinger County on Saturday.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol said the incident happened on August 16, at 12:30 p.m., in a private lake, roughly four miles north of Patton.

State police said the 30-year-old man from St. Louis was swimming in a private lake when he submerged and didn't resurface. The man was pronounced dead at the scene by Bollinger County Coroner Calvin Troxell at 1:43 p.m.

MSHP reported this incident as the first drowning for the Troop E area in southeast Missouri for 2025.

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