Vincentian Yuri Thomas who hails from the community of Freeland, Mesopotamia, drowned while swimming with his wife in Horsetooth Reservoir in Denver, Colorado, USA.
Thomas, 32, was unresponsive when he was pulled from Horsetooth Reservoir Monday afternoon.
The Johnstown Police Department confirmed that Thomas drowned in a northern Colorado reservoir.
Thomas was with his wife at the reservoir when he went underwater and didn’t resurface.
According to Denver 7, the wife immediately called 911, and searchers found Thomas about 45 feet from the shore. He had been underwater for almost an hour.
Thomas was pulled from a spot south of a designated swim beach and outside the buoyed area.
32-year-old Yuri Thomas was a Police Officer employed with The Johnstown Police Department, in Denver Colorado.
The GoFundMe page describes the officer as “One of the happiest, enthusiastic, and most dedicated Officers to serve the citizens of Johnstown.”
