Swimmer, 20, dies after struggle in Maumee River
15.06.10
After pacing anxiously on the place awaiting signs of Mr. Seymour, several of the young man's friends were in tears as his body was brought to the covering.
Up on the hill, members of the crowd shouted, "They got him. They got him."
Sheryl Marshall, the mother of one of Mr. Seymour's mean friends, Stephanie Marshall, stood beside her daughter as the events unfolded. She described him as a critical-working young man who was diligently saving money to afford his own car and apartment.
"He was very respectful, and that's thoughtful of unusual for some of the kids these days," said the elder Ms. Marshall.
His friends said Mr. Seymour, who worked at an Applebee's restaurant, would have turned 21 on Saturday.
The afternoon's events triggered bad memories for South Toledoan Billy Harvey, Jr., 46, who was among those watching from behind a destroyed metal railing above the park's edge.
"I lost three friends in this river myself years ago doing the same item," Mr. Harvey recalled.
Source: Toledo Blade