PERSON COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) -- Authorities are investigating after a 12-year-old boy drowned at Hyco Lake in Person County.
It happened on Memorial Day just after 6:15 p.m.
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Officials told ABC11 the unidentified boy went into an area that was too deep for him to swim in.
The boy's friends tried to save him but were unsuccessful.
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The child was a Person County native and a student at Roxboro Community School.