Searchers Monday evening found the body of a 6-year-old Reno boy who fell into Lake Lahontan on Saturday, said Jeff Page, Lyon County director of emergency services.They discovered the body of Apollo Fuller at Lahontan State Park's Beach 3, the same area where he reportedly fell from a trampoline into the lake, Undersherrif Joe Sanford said.
A boater or camper first noticed the body in the water and notified a parks department official, Sanford said.
Next of kin have been notified.
Authorities searched the lake for two days looking for Apollo, Lyon County sheriff's Lt. Robin Hall said.
In a scaled-back search on Monday, boats from the Nevada Divisions of Wildlife and State Parks patrolled the water near the shore starting at dawn, looking for any sign of the boy reported missing about 1:15 p.m. Saturday, Hall said.
Over the weekend, about 60 officers from various agencies and at least one dog searched the shore and woods and distributed fliers with a photo and information about the boy.
A sheriff's official said 1,300 vehicles were stopped and searched.
Authorities at first handled the boy's disappearance as a missing person's case.
They began searching the murky lake Sunday after a family member reported about 11 a.m. the boy had disappeared while jumping on a water trampoline, Hall said.
Officers summoned divers and a sonar boat and focused on a water search.
The search was limited to the shoreline starting Sunday night, Hall said.
"It's devastating," he said. "Obviously, you go out to the lake to have a fun weekend, and something like this happens."
Steven Silva, senior law enforcement specialist for Nevada state parks, said the drowning was the first in a state park this year.
"Statistically, we have, in all of our parks that have water, we might average one or less a year," Silva said. "We go some years where we don't have any drowning incidents at all and then in other years, we might have two or three."
Children and adults can stay safe in the water by not entering the water alone, being aware of the cold water conditions and noting water depth and hazards, Reno Public Safety Spokesman Steve Frady said.
The most important thing is to keep children supervised at al times, Silva said.
"That's really the best thing that people can do," he said. "Kids are just so mobile, and they can disappear on you so fast so you just need to keep a close watch on your children when you're near the water."
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