AUTOPSY RESULTS RELEASED ON DROWNING VICTIM

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Richland County Coroner,  Steve Patterson has released the autopsy results from an incident that occurred on Sunday, May 19th regarding an accidental drowning death on Borah Lake in Olney.  Patterson says 33-year-old Emare Evans died from asthma and cannabis intoxication as contributing factors in his death.  Patterson said that Evans had a history asthmatic episodes and the pathologist’s report mentioned that cannabis was a factor.  The death has been ruled an accidental death during recreational swimming.  Evans was with his girlfriend and others on that Sunday when he went swimming from the Borah Lake beach area on the afternoon of May 19th.  When he was no longer seen on the water, emergency responders were called to the lake and a search eventually recovered the body from the lake.