Boston teen dies whereas swimming at Milford quarry

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Authorities recognized the 17-year-old as Yanick Rodrigues. His household mentioned he was swimming with pals at Shadowbrook Quarries when tragedy struck.

An outing with pals turned lethal when 17-year-old Yanick Rodrigues went swimming within the Shadowbrook Quarries in Milford, authorities and household mentioned. 

The Worcester County District Attorney’s Office recognized the teenager on Monday, after household shared the teenager’s expertise in a web-based obituary. 

Rodrigues left Cape Verde in 2016 and moved to Dorchester. He was at the moment a senior at Madison Park High School in Roxbury. 

“Everyone knew him as the kid who could do it all — a smooth soccer player with a bright smile and a strong drive to build a career as an automotive technician,” the obituary says. 

Rodrigues and a bunch of pals went to Shadowbrook Quarries on Saturday for a swim. 

After he entered the water, his pals realized he was in bother and known as for assist. 

The obituary says that greater than 50 emergency personnel got here to the quarry, together with firefighters, cops, and specialised dive groups. The crews labored via the night and into the following morning. Dive groups in the end situated Rodrigues’s physique 50 ft under the floor. 

The Worcester County District Attorney’s Office is investigating the incident. 

The demise comes solely per week after Milford police rescued an 18-year-old who had fallen from a ledge onto jagged rocks about 12 ft under on the quarries. 

Police officers discovered the younger lady acutely aware however bleeding from a number of areas whereas mendacity amongst damaged bottles and leaves. The lady was transported to a neighborhood hospital for treatement. 

“While we’re thankful this incident did not have an even more tragic outcome, it serves as an important reminder that the Quarries are not a safe place for recreation,” Milford Chief of Police Robert Tusino mentioned in an announcement, concerning the preliminary incident. “We continue to strongly discourage anyone from entering the property or swimming in the quarries.”

Tusino added that the steep rock faces, unstable terrain, and restricted entry for emergency responders create an “extremely dangerous environment where a single misstep can have life-altering consequences.”