(East Chicago, IN) - Indiana Conservation Officers are investigating the death of a juvenile recovered from Lake Michigan near Jeorse Park in East Chicago yesterday.

Emergency personnel, at about 4 p.m., were dispatched to the park’s breakwall area for a juvenile male missing in the water. 

Witnesses reported a group of juveniles were jumping off the breakwall after being advised not to by East Chicago Marina staff. A 14-year-old male jumped off the wall and began struggling in the water, before disappearing below the surface.

The boy was then recovered and transported to St. Catherine Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.