Crime & Safety
Fatal Drowning Victim Jumped Off Ocean Beach Pier for Backpack: Police
The man reportedly leaped from the pier to get a backpack that was tossed in the water by one of two men with whom he'd had an altercation.
SAN DIEGO - Authorities released the name Monday of a 27-year-old tourist who drowned last week after jumping off the Ocean Beach Pier to try to retrieve some belongings from the heavy nighttime surf.
Kevin Chilson-Moyers of Mesquite, Nevada, was on the pier with his girlfriend Friday evening when he got into a dispute with two other men, one of whom grabbed his backpack and tossed it over the edge of the structure, according to San Diego police and the county Medical Examiner's Office.
Chilson-Moyers jumped into the ocean and got dragged under by rough waves and caught up in thick seaweed. Lifeguards eventually were able to locate and rescue him, and medics took him to UCSD Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 10 p.m.
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