2 people killed in San Joaquin River boating incident identified
Two people who died in a boating incident in the San Joaquin River last weekend have been identified, officials said Wednesday.
A boat was involved in an incident shortly after 5 p.m. Sunday near Prisoner Point and Hayes Beach, the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office said.
Exactly what happened remains unclear, though authorities said one boat overturned and sank with three people aboard. One person was pulled from the water and flown to a hospital in critical condition.
The sheriff's office announced on Tuesday that the bodies of the other two people, who had been missing since the incident, were recovered. Officials did not clarify when or where in the river the bodies were found.
The San Joaquin County Medical Examiner's Office has since identified the two as Hanford resident Paul Anthony Mendes, 51, and Lodi resident Scott Randall Seabourn, 68.
The sheriff's office previously corrected information stating that two boats were involved, saying that information was incorrect.
No further details about the incident were immediately available.
