OZARK COUNTY, Mo. — A St. Louis professor drowned while fishing in a river in Ozark County on Sunday.
It happened at around 10 a.m. at North Fork River. Richard Brasington, 71, was fishing and had been walking through the water when he drowned, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report.
A spokesperson from Washington University's School of Medicine confirmed to 5 On Your Side that Brasington was a rheumatologist who was a professor emeritus at the college.
This is the fourth drowning in the area this year, according to the report.
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