(Bassterre; St. Kitts): Just one week after the late Koris Woodley of Sandy Point was laid to rest after he died of drowning at Pinney's Beach, in Nevis, another young Sandy Pointer succumb to the same circumstance.
Jason McIntosh, 25, of Sandy Point, drowned yesterday, morning Saturday, March, 31 at Majors Beach, South Friars.
According to Police reports, McIntosh participated in a walk with other members of the Antioch Baptist Church leaving his home about 5 30 a.m.
The group walked from a point in Frigate Bay to the beach where the incident occurred sometime after 9 a.m.
Inspector Moore of the Frigate Bay Police Station told SKNVibes.com that McIntosh jumped from a barge into the water and encountered difficulties.~~adz:Left~~
"Persons tried to get him out of the water and administered CPR on McIntosh as well as calling the EMS but it was too late," Moore said.
The Inspector said that a post mortem was conducted by the resident pathologist On Saturday, and revealed that McIntosh died as a result of drowning.
McIntosh was Supervisor of Housekeeping Department at Ross University.
"That was the Caribbean side, normally it is the Atlantic side that is rough," Inspector Moore said of McIntosh's death. "I would like to take this opportunity to urge people to exercise caution when going to the beach and to use lifeguard jackets if they are not strong swimmers."
