A veteran officer with the Palatine Police Department drowned remaining week after having a scientific emergency in Petite Lake close to Lake Villa.
Officer Victor Lopez, a 21-year veteran with the dept, have been swimming on the “sandbar” house in Petite Lake for roughly two hours with buddies July 3, when he went underneath water, in line with the Lake County sheriff’s administrative center and Palatine police.
His buddies sooner or later discovered him subconscious underneath the water close to their boat, and took him to shore, the sheriff’s administrative center mentioned.
Paramedics spoke back about 5:45 p.m. to the 38800 block of North Cedar Crest Drive and took Lopez, 49, to Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, the place he was once pronounced lifeless, the sheriff’s administrative center mentioned.
A initial post-mortem indicated he died from drowning, in line with the Lake County coroner’s administrative center. Palatine police mentioned he had a scientific emergency ahead of drowning.
Officer Lopez, of Round Lake Beach, served with police division as a box coaching officer, juvenile officer and college useful resource officer District 211 Academy North High School, the place he stored the lifetime of a scholar who harmed themselves with a knife, police mentioned.
“Officer “Vic” Lopez shall be in reality ignored by means of the participants of the Palatine Police Department,” the dept mentioned within the unencumber.