Drowning Victim At Loch Raven Reservoir Identified

BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD — Police have identified the person who died in Loch Raven Reservoir last week as a Florida man. He was in the area looking for work, police said.

Terry J. Ousley, 24, was pronounced deceased at the scene when the Baltimore County Police Department's dive team found him on Aug. 27, according to authorities.

Police said Ousley lived in the 5000 block of Pine Needle in Mascotte, Florida, which is in the central part of the state, west of Orlando. He was in Maryland seeking employment in the area, according to officials.

Ousley was located after a search that spanned most of the day on Monday, Aug. 27.

Water rescue crews were dispatched at 10:53 a.m. to the 10500 block of Pot Spring Road, where witnesses said a man went underwater and did not resurface.

Police had seen a man walk down a trail to the reservoir before swimming about 75 feet out and going under, according to ABC 2 News.

The officers were in the area because neighbors alerted authorities at 10:45 a.m. there was a man going door to door asking for water who appeared to be in distress.

For hours after the man was seen going underwater, swift water rescue teams searched Loch Raven Reservoir, and then divers came as the incident turned from a rescue call to a recovery mission in the afternoon.

At 6:21 p.m. on Monday, authorities said police divers recovered the body.

It is illegal to swim in Loch Raven Reservoir as well as Prettyboy and Liberty reservoirs in Baltimore and Carroll counties.

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Photo of rescue crews at Loch Raven Reservoir on Monday, Aug. 27, courtesy of Baltimore County Fire.