Lake Mead fall victim identified

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Lake Mead fall victim identified

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service on Nov. 18, 2008. It is reproduced in full below.

LAS VEGAS - The National Park Service has identifed the man who fell to his death yesterday morning as Jay Brown, Jr. of Las Vegas. He and a group where hiking Fortification Hill near Kingman Wash northeast of Hoover Dam on the Arizona side of Lake Mead.

Witnesses state that Brown fell while climbing. He had reached a height of 16-feet when he lost hold and fell about 75-feet. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

- NPS -

Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service

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