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22-year-old ID’d in apparent drowning at Lake Pueblo State Park

Woman killed in accident involving boat propeller at Lake Pueblo ID'd

The body recovered at Lake Pueblo State Park early Friday morning has been identified as a 22-year-old Texas man, according to the Pueblo County Coroner’s Office.

Victory Chinwendu Osuji of Richmond, Texas, as he was identified by the coroner in a post on X on Monday afternoon, went missing in the lake after falling out of an inflatable tube without a life jacket about 30 to 60 yards from shore around 7 p.m. Thursday.

His body was recovered hours later by the Colorado Parks and Wildlife marine evidence team around 1:30 a.m. Friday. A coroner investigator pronounced Osuji dead on scene, the Pueblo County Coroner’s Office said on social media.

Osuji’s was the most recent reported death of at least four at Lake Pueblo since the start of May.

Lake Pueblo State Park (Courtesy photo)
Lake Pueblo State Park (Courtesy photo)


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