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Teams Scour Lake for Missing Mass. College Student After Canoeing Incident

Dominick Tocci, 20, has been missing since his canoe capsized on Lake Hayward; search efforts by multiple agencies including dive teams remain active.

  • On Saturday night, March 21, a College of the Holy Cross student, Dominick Joseph Tocci, 20, went missing after his canoe capsized on Lake Hayward in East Haddam.
  • Connecticut Environmental Conservation Police said two 20-year-old men were in the canoe when it overturned near 155 Lake Shore Drive, and a Good Samaritan rescued one man who was hospitalized and later discharged.
  • Search efforts included water-based searches, aerial surveillance and dive teams; DEEP's EnCon police and Connecticut State Police drone and dive teams aided the response.
  • On Monday, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection announced crews recovered 20-year-old Dominick Tocci's body, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine cause, and the College of the Holy Cross offered counseling while asking for the Tocci family's privacy.
  • Police are asking people who were in the Lake Hayward area around the time of the incident to contact DEEP Dispatch at 860-424-3333; the search was suspended Sunday evening and expected to resume Monday morning.
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