DEERFIELD — Wilver Perez, 30, of Guatemala, has been identified as the victim in a drowning incident Saturday, according to the Northwestern district attorney’s office.
Deerfield Police as well as Deerfield, Greenfield and Turners Falls firefighters and South County Emergency Medical Services responded to the emergency on McClelland Farm Road in Deerfield at 12:37 p.m.
Perez was pulled from the Connecticut River Saturday and transported to Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield, where he was pronounced dead about 2 p.m.
The incident occurred just east of the General Pierce Bridge, where the Deerfield River feeds into the Connecticut River, said Mary Carey, a spokeswoman from the district attorney’s office.
“We believe he was swimming with some other friends and apparently got into some deep water,” said Capt. Leon Ambo of the Turners Falls Fire Department said Saturday.
The Northwestern district attorney’s office reported Sunday Perez was caught in an eddy or circular current of water and pulled under. No foul play is suspected.