Austin Police ID Barton Creek Drowning Victim

AUSTIN, TX — Police on Monday identified the man who drowned in Barton Creek last week.

Carlo Hurtado, 20, was reportedly swimming with friends when he dove under the water but never resurfaced, Austin police said in a press advisory. Austin-Travis County EMS medics were dispatched to the site, near Barton Springs Pool, just before 6 p.m. on May 17, amid reports of a swimmer in distress.

Hurtado was initially pulled from the water alive, and a city lifeguard performed CPR techniques in an effort to save him before Austin-Travis County medics took over. Sadly, the efforts to resuscitate Hurtado were unsuccessful, and he subsequently died.

Police noted the death was not considered suspicious.

Hurtado was the second to drown in the area in recent days. Police on Friday identified Israel Olayemi, 26, as the man whose body was found submerged body in water near Twin Falls along the Barton Creek greenbelt last Sunday.

Also on Monday — the same day Austin police identified Hurtado — officials in Pflugerville identified Rafael Peña Villastrigo as the man who drowned while swimming in Lake Pflugerville last Thursday afternoon. The Austin man was 23 years old.

Meanwhile, at Lake Travis, police continue to search for two bodies still underwater after recent drownings there. A woman in her 20s fell from the top deck of a party barge on Saturday, May 19, into the water but never came back up. Her drowning comes after the May 5 drowning of Manuel Salas, who went underwater while swimming with friends. The body of the 53-year-old, like that of the woman who fell in Saturday, has yet to be recovered from the depths of Lake Travis.

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