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Windsor Charter High School student identified as teen who drowned at Rock Bridge Lake over the weekend

Denver7 · · 279 words · By Óscar Contreras
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What to know about Windsor Charter High School student identified as teen who drowned at Rock Bridge Lake over the weekend

— A 15-year-old boy who drowned at Rock Bridge Lake in Windsor over the weekend was identified as a student at Windsor Charter High School by fire officials Monday.

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What happened

— A 15-year-old boy who drowned at Rock Bridge Lake in Windsor over the weekend was identified as a student at Windsor Charter High School by fire officials Monday.

Why it matters

The teen, identified by the Weld County Coroner's Office as Evan Alexander Cole, was swimming with a friend at Rock Bridge Lake just before 7:26 p.m.

Common ground

Saturday when neighbors in the area heard they were in distress and called 911.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “A 15-year-old boy who drowned at Rock Bridge Lake in Windsor over the weekend was identified as a student at Windsor Charter High School”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm a 15-year-old boy drowned at Rock Bridge Lake and that Windsor Charter Academy announced the loss of one of its high school students.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The concept of zones is explained on the LAUSD website.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Los_Angeles_Unified_Sc…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of high schools in California, public, private and chartered, organized by county and by city or school district. This list includes former high schools.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high_schools_in_Califo…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of high schools in the U.S. state of Illinois.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high_schools_in_Illino…
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Claim 2: “the teens were not wearing life vests at the time of the incident”
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While sources mention the boy was floating on a raft and swimming, none of the provided evidence explicitly states whether the teens were wearing life vests during this specific incident.
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web search NEUTRAL — It's unclear what led to the drowning. Rockbridge Lake is about 20 feet deep at its deepest and the temperature was in the low 70s at the time of the incident.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/windsor-greeley-rescuers…
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web search NEUTRAL — The three were not wearing life jackets and could not make it back to the boat. Reagan Dalke was the only one spotted by other boaters after they had come across the empty boat hours before.
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/man-lost-wife-and-child-in-l…
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web search NEUTRAL — Windsor Severance Fire Rescue said neighbors near Rock Bridge Lake called 911 after hearing a person shouting for help around 7:26 p.m. Saturday. Investigators say the boy was floating on a raft and s…
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/teen-dies-apparent-dro…
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Claim 3: “The teen was found about 40 feet from shore in about 10 feet of water by 8:14 p.m.”
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The provided evidence for this claim contains results about a 49-year-old in Minnesota and a body at Lake Pueblo State Park, but no evidence confirming the specific depth (10ft) or distance (40ft) for the Windsor teen's recovery.
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Claim 4: “First responders got to the scene about seven minutes later”
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The detail regarding first responders arriving 'about seven minutes later' is mentioned in one specific web search result citing spokesperson Hailey Carson, but not corroborated by other independent sources.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Highway 99 is a provincial highway in British Columbia that runs 377 kilometres (234 miles) from the Canada–United States border to near Cache Creek, serving Greater Vancouver and the Squamish–Lillooe…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of rural municipality highways in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan between the numbers 600 and 699. The 600-series highways run north and south and, generally, the last tw…
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Claim 5: “The teen, identified by the Weld County Coroner's Office as Evan Alexander Cole, was swimming with a friend at Rock Bridge Lake just before 7:26 p.m. Saturday”
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The Weld County Coroner's Office identified the teen as Evan Alexander Cole, and multiple sources confirm he was swimming at Rock Bridge Lake around 7:26 p.m. on Saturday.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Boulder County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 330,758. The most populous municipality in the county and the county seat is Boulder. Boulde…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Colorado. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 246 l…
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Claim 6: “In 2020, Denver7 reported that a 13-year-old boy died after a canoe tipped over at Rock Bridge Lake.”
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Multiple independent sources (KRDO, AP, and others) confirm that a 13-year-old boy died at Rock Bridge Lake after a canoe overturned in windy conditions.
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web search NEUTRAL — The 13-year-old Windsor boy died Thursday afternoon while canoeing with his 8-year-old brother.
https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2020/05/08/colorado-te…
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web search NEUTRAL — - Colorado authorities say a 13-year-old boy has died after the canoe he was in with his younger brother flipped in windy conditions on Rock Bridge Lake in Windsor.
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web search NEUTRAL — (AP) - A teenager died after the canoe he was in with his younger brother flipped in windy conditions on a lake in northern Colorado, authorities said.The teenager, identified Friday as 13-year-old Ma…
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/8/colorado-tee…
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Claim 7: “a diver with Windsor Severance Fire Rescue was in the water by 7:42 p.m.”
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The specific time of 7:42 p.m. for the diver entering the water is mentioned in one source citing spokesperson Hailey Carson, but not corroborated by other independent sources.
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