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on November 14, 2016
Police release name of teen who drowned at Silver Sands
POLICE HAVE RELEASED the name of the teenager who drowned at Silver Sands Beach yesterday.
He is 17-year-old Simeon Nathan Morris of Cherry Grove, St John.
Morris was attending a friend’s family reunion picnic. Police say he went into the water close to the shoreline around 3:47 p.m. with his brother and two friends.
The teenager was knocked over by a wave and didn’t resurface.
His body was later spotted and retrieved by a sea bather.
Police investigations are continuing. (PR/NB)