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16-year-old boy drowns in St. Francis River
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Little Rock, Arkansas – On Thursday afternoon, officials with the Craighead County Sheriff’s Dive Team and the Arkansas Game and Fish discovered the body of a teen who drowned.
The family made the announcement after they confirmed the body of 16-year-old Riley Sawyer.
At 6 p.m., the body was found in the area of Williams Landing in Dixie, Arkansas on the St. Francis River.
According to law enforcement, they received a call around 12:40 p.m. that Sawyer had gone underwater and had not resurfaced.
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