County Medical Examiner Releases Identity of Lacamas Lake Drowning Victim

On Wednesday afternoon, the Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office released the name of the Vancouver teen who drowned at Lacamas Lake Tuesday evening.

The victim was 14-year-old Anthony Huynh, who was swimming with friends and jumping off the Lacamas Park walking bridge Tuesday as part of fun summer day outing. According to friends, once they noticed Huynh was missing they went looking for him and eventually called 911 for assistance.

Police quickly found his belongings, including his cell phone.

The cause of death is accidental drowning.

Shortly after 9 pm Tuesday, divers from Multnomah and Clark counties recovered the teen’s body from the lake after a 10-minute search. The Medical Examiner was called to the scene.

Through the day Wednesday, many have stopped by the bridge to pray, ponder and leave balloons, flowers and kind notes to the deceased and to his family.

Drownings have occurred in summer months at Lacamas Lake throughout its history.

In Washington, there were 98 unintentional drowning deaths of residents in 2017. Drowning along with fire/burns, were the second leading cause of unintentional injury death for children and teens ages 1 – 17 in Washington. Source: WA Department of Health, Washington Tracking Network Data, accessed June 2019

In 2017, there were 4,508 drowning deaths in the United States, an average of 12 deaths per day. 
Source: CDC, WISQARS Injury Mortality Report, accessed June 2019

Link to the first article: https://lacamasmagazine.com/2019/08/police-vancouver-teen-drowns-at-lacamas-lake-tuesday-evening.html