Searchers have recovered the body of a teenager who was one of two people on an ATV that broke through the ice of a northern Minnesota lake, officials said.
Shortly before 6 p.m. Monday, 911 callers reported to the Cass County Sheriff’s Office that an ATV breached the ice on Blackwater Lake, located about 9 miles south of Longville.
Emergency medical responders and sheriff’s deputies found one of the riders, a 20-year-old man, and got him to shore, the Sheriff’s Office said. He was treated at the scene for exposure and hypothermia before being taken by air ambulance to St. Cloud Hospital, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Officials have yet to give an update on his condition.
Search efforts continued that night for the other rider, an 18-year-old man, and resumed Tuesday until shortly before 1 p.m., when his body was found and removed from the water, the Sheriff’s Office said.
The 18-year-old’s aunt identified him as Blake Herman, of Brainerd.
Officials have yet to release the identity of the other ATV rider.