A Wisconsin man has been charged with homicide after police say he threw a 13-year-old boy into the Menominee River, where he drowned.

According to court records obtained by My Up Now , 21-year-old Tylor Birch of Marinette has been charged with second-degree reckless homicide following the death of Jakob Bowerman this month.

Birch and a 16-year-old identified as P.C. are accused of pushing Bowerman into the river , on the Michigan-Wisconsin border, before they realized he couldn’t swim and jumped in after him, according to the TV station.

After unsuccessfully attempting to hold his head above water, they returned to shore to call 911.

“(Tylor) said (Jakob) was under the water more than above. Tylor said it scared him when he found out (Jakob) couldn’t swim and he didn’t want him

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