WESTPORT — One person has been pronounced dead after first responders received a call from witnesses involving a woman screaming for help in a river.
On February 25, around 7:40 p.m. Lt. David Farrell of Westport Police Department said people at the restaurant, The Whelk, located on 575 Riverside Avenue in Westport, heard a woman screaming for help in Saugatuck River.
Farrell said first repsonders responded immediately, jumping in a boat to save the woman. Farrell said the woman could not recall how she ended up in the river. The woman did tell police she was in a car with a man. Farrell said moments later, they observed the male further up the river near the Bridge Street Bridge.
Farrell said the man, identified as Richard Lamendola, 76, from New York, was pulled from the water and transported to the Norwalk Hospital where was then pronounced dead. The woman is reported alive and was also transported to the Norwalk Hospital.
This incident is being investigated by the Westport Police Department.
