A 39 year-old Ypsilanti man drowned Saturday while swimming at a lake near Milan, police said.
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office said Russell Wilson was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor hospital.
The incident took place around 6:45 p.m. Saturday at Clean Water Beach, a private beach about 4 miles south of Milan.
"He was in the deep end, he went down and it looks like his friends didn't see him for 10 or 15 minutes or so," said Monroe County Sheriff's detective Jeff Pauli.
Beach staff went into the water and pulled Wilson up on the first try, Pauli said. They attempted CPR, as did paramedics who transferred him to the hospital.
Wilson was in in roughly 12 feet of water about 30 to 40 feet from the shore, Pauli said.
A man who answered the phone at Clear Water Beach declined comment. Pauli said this was the first fatal drowning of the season at the beach.