Manitou Beach, MI – The body of the Ohio man who drowned in Devil’s Lake this weekend has been recovered.
At just after 5pm Monday afternoon, divers were able to locate and remove 39 year old Thomas O’Leary from the lake. Lenawee County Sheriff’s Deputies said that he was part of a group of two families from Sylvania who rented a cottage on the lake for the weekend.
O’Leary and his daughter were getting ready to go tubing just before 2pm Sunday afternoon. Prior to a boat pulling them around the lake, they both fell off the tube and went into the water. The child, who was wearing a life jacket, came back to the surface and had no medical issues. O’Leary, who was not wearing a life jacket, never resurfaced.
The Sheriff’s Office says that alcohol was not a factor in the drowning. They were assisted by the MSP dive team, the Toledo Fire Department dive team, Addison and Somerset Fire Department, and the Michigan DNR.