JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have identified a hunter who drowned this week at an icy lake in northeast Kansas.
The Geary County Sheriff’s Department says 31-year-old Thomas Hendrick of Fort Riley died Tuesday while duck hunting at Milford Lake.
Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf said Hendrick went out on a makeshift boat to retrieve a duck shot by his hunting partner from shore. Wolf says Hendrick stepped onto an ice sheet when the boat began taking on water, then fell through the ice.