A 15-year-old boy from Bedford is dead after drowning at Quarry Lake in Aurora, Ohio, on Thursday afternoon, leaving his family and a tight-knit community in mourning.
Eugene “EJ” Wilkerson was identified as the victim. Emergency crews from the Aurora Fire Department and Portage County Water Rescue Team responded to the 300 block of Treat Road shortly after 4 p.m. following a 911 call reporting a teenager struggling in the water.
What followed was a grueling two-hour search beneath the surface of the lake before rescue workers finally located his body at approximately 6:15 p.m., roughly ten feet underwater and just twenty-five feet from shore.…