A longtime Morehead State University professor has drowned at a Mercer County lake marina.
The Mercer County Coroner’s Office said 71-year-old Gary B. Lafleur, of Frankfort, drowned Thursday afternoon at Midlake Marina at Herrington Lake near Harrodsburg.
Lafleur, according to Kentucky Fish & Wildlife officials, fell off the back of his boat at the boat ramp as someone was securing the boat onto a trailer. He wife tried to rescue him but was unsuccessful.
A Burgin Fire and Rescue crew and the Burgin Police Department arrived and retrieved Lafleur from the water and performed CPR. He was transported to Ephraim McDowell James B. Haggin Hospital in Harrodsburg where he was pronounced deceased.
Lafleur could not swim and did not have a life jacket on, the coroner’s office said.
Lafleur began teaching communications skills and theory at Morehead State in 1992, according to the university’s website. Prior to arriving at Morehead St., Lafleur taught at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut and the University of Massachusetts. He began teaching in 1973.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
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