GARY, Ind. – The Lake County Coroner's office says one of two men who drowned in Lake Michigan near Gary over the weekend was from the Indiana community of Hobart.
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The office released information late Sunday correcting their earlier reports and identified one of the deceased men as 37-year-old David Halford of Hobart. Twenty-six-year-old Kyle Reibly of Griffith also died.
WLS-TV in Chicago reports the men were trying to save a child who appeared to be drowning.
Both men were taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead around 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
The Gary Air Show was held over the weekend. The National Weather Service had issued a beach hazards statement for northwest Indiana warning that life-threatening waves and currents were expected.