Coroner IDs Final Victim In Last Month's Boating Accident

PHOTO: The Sonoma County sheriff’s helicopter, Henry, 1, locates a 21-foot pleasure vessel that went missing on Friday, Saturday, April 18, 2015. Photo courtesy Friends of Henry 1.

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The Marin County coroner’s office has identified a fourth boater who died in an accident at Point Reyes National Seashore last month as 39-year-old David Breeden of Windsor.

The coroner’s office was notified by the National Park Service at 4:45 p.m. Sunday that a Sonoma County sheriff’s helicopter crew located a man’s body two miles south of Bird Rock on the rocky shoreline of Point Reyes National Seashore, coroner’s Lt. Keith Boyd said.

The helicopter brought the body of the man, later identified as Breeden, to an area of Pierce Point Road where coroner’s officials were waiting, Boyd said.

Breeden was with three others on a 21-foot recreational fishing boat that left Bodega Bay, and was reported missing on April 17.

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It was found overturned on rocks near Tomales Point at 10:15 the next day.

The others aboard who perished are Diane Kelly, 61, and Ryan Viall, 28, both of Windsor, and Richard Hargreaves Jr., 59, of Santa Rosa. U.S. Coast Guard officials said they did not receive a distress signal from the vessel and investigators do not know what happened to the boat.

An autopsy on Breeden was conducted Monday and the cause of his death is pending further forensic diagnostic studies, Boyd said.

--Bay City News

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