Body of 20-year-old missing student canoer recovered after multiday search on Connecticut lake

Authorities successful Connecticut recovered the assemblage of a 20-year-old assemblage pupil Monday aft a multi-day hunt pursuing a canoeing mishap connected a section lake, officials said.

Dominick Joseph Tocci, of Woodstock, Connecticut, was recovered astatine astir 3 p.m. connected March 23 successful Lake Hayward successful East Haddam, according to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP).

The hunt began precocious Saturday night, astir 9:50 p.m., aft officials received reports that a canoe carrying Tocci had capsized. Another idiosyncratic progressive successful the incidental was rescued, but Tocci did not resurface.

Holy Cross mourns inferior Dominick Tocci, 20, whose assemblage was recovered from Lake Hayward days aft his canoe capsized successful East Haddam, Connecticut. (Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection)

Lake Hayward, a astir 170-acre freshwater water successful the tiny municipality of East Haddam, is simply a fashionable spot for boating successful New England.

Search efforts implicit the pursuing days progressive DEEP Environmental Conservation (EnCon) Police, Connecticut State Police drone and dive teams, and different section and authorities agencies. Crews conducted water-based searches, aerial surveillance and dive operations successful an effort to find him.

Dominick Tocci went missing precocious Saturday aft his canoe capsized connected Lake Hayward; a 2nd idiosyncratic progressive successful the incidental was rescued. (Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection)

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Tocci was a inferior astatine the College of the Holy Cross successful Worcester, Massachusetts, wherever helium was majoring successful governmental science, the schoolhouse confirmed. Holy Cross is simply a backstage Jesuit wide arts college.

"The College was devastated to larn this day that the hunt squad recovered the assemblage of Dominick Tocci ‘27, a inferior governmental subject large from Woodstock, Conn, pursuing a boating incidental successful Connecticut," they said. "The prayers of the full Holy Cross assemblage are with Dominick’s family, friends, classmates, professors and each who knew him."

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Counseling enactment has been made disposable to students, module and unit who whitethorn request it. The schoolhouse said it would not stock further details and asked that the Tocci family’s privateness beryllium respected.

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Connecticut authorities recovered the assemblage of Holy Cross pupil Dominick Tocci aft a multi-day hunt pursuing a canoe capsizing connected Lake Hayward. (Facebook/Lisa Madden)

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Authorities said the incidental remains nether probe by EnCon Police. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner volition find the origin and mode of death.

DEEP officials besides extended condolences to Tocci’s household and thanked the exigency unit progressive successful the response.

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