Boca Raton police are investigating the death of a man found at the bottom of the Intracoastal Waterway after he went missing from Boca Bash, according to a news release.
Police identified the dead man as Francis Roselin, 32, of West Palm Beach.
The incident happened April 29 during the annual Boca Bash, held on the last Sunday in April on Lake Boca and usually attended by thousands of boaters and swimmers.
Police said two men flagged down a Boca Police Marine Unit boat and told the officer they couldn’t find Roselin, whom they had last seen swimming in the lake, according to the release.
After a search by the Boca Police Marine Unit, Ocean Rescue, the U.S. Coast Guard and a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office helicopter, a swimmer found Roselin just after 5 p.m. in the Intracoastal in 5 feet of water.
Boca Raton police ask anyone with information to call Detective Lazarus Kimsal at 620-6144.
Police spokesman Mark Economou said the department will write what it calls an “after-action report” about Boca Bash and will assess how officers were deployed for the event. It does the same thing for the Holiday Parade and other large gatherings of people, he said.
“We feel as though we made it as safe as possible this year,” Economou said.
— Henry Fitzgerald
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