Divers pull body from Lake CdA

Divers with the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department retrieved the body of a black man in his 60s from the freezing waters of Lake Coeur d’Alene just before 6 p.m. Monday.

Coeur d’Alene police Sgt. Christie Wood said the man is a Coeur d’Alene resident. She said his name is being withheld until authorities notify his family.

The body was spotted just before 4 p.m. by Richard Ulrick, who recently moved to town from Minnesota and was hiking Tubbs Hill for the first time with two friends.

“We were just walking, enjoying our hike,” Ulrick said. He was tossing snowballs into the lake when he spotted the body, and the hikers called 911.

Wood said there were no obvious injuries to the body, which was submerged in waist-deep water about 20 feet from the rocky shoreline.

Areas of water near shore were covered in ice.

Wood said the body appeared to have been in the water for one to two days. Coeur d’Alene police are investigating.