EXCELSIOR, Minn. – A man has drowned while swimming in Lake Minnetonka, the second death on the lake in as many days. First responders were called to the lake about 6 p.m. Thursday. The man had been swimming off a beach in Excelsior.
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office says a water patrol deputy and a Department of Natural Resources conservation officer jumped in the lake and pulled the man onto a patrol boat. He has transported him to Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, where he later died.
On Wednesday afternoon, a juvenile died in a Jet Ski crash.
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