Englishman drowns in Lake Keowee

An Englishman drowned Friday evening near the Cliffs Boat Ramp at Lake Keowee in Pickens County.  The deputy coroner, Gary Duncan, says the victim was Derrick Andrew Otin, 24-year old resident of Nottingham, England and a 2020 graduate of Xavier University in Cincinnati.  Otin was visiting friends at the Cliffs.  An autopsy was conducted Saturday at Prisma Health Greenville.  The death is being investigated by the South Carolina DNR.