A tragic incident occurred on Saturday afternoon, July 6, in Little Detroit Lake. Sterling Arias Buchholz, 24, of Fargo, North Dakota, was found unresponsive after going under the water near Zorbaz restaurant on the 400 block of West Lake Drive.
At around 3:26 p.m., dispatch received a report that Buchholz had been swimming from shore when he disappeared beneath the water. By the time first responders arrived, citizens had already started searching for him. A few minutes later, a citizen located Buchholz, who was unresponsive and not breathing.
He was initially transported to Essentia Health-St. Mary’s hospital in Detroit Lakes before being transferred to a hospital in the Fargo area. As of Monday afternoon, July 8, his condition remains .