Drowning in Pickens County Under Investigation

Pickens County Deputy Coroner Gary Duncan said that a drowning investigation is underway by the South Carolina DNR. The victim was identified as 24 year-old Derrick Andrew Otin, a resident of Nottingham, England and a graduate this year from Xavier University in Cincinnati, who was visiting with friends at the Cliffs Boat Ramp on Lake Keowee this past Friday evening, when he drowned. An autopsy was performed at
Prisma Health in Greenville on Saturday.