Body of Missing Swimmer Located in Willamette River

A "Celebration Fund" in the name of Zacharey Harle at the Marion & Polk Schools Credit Union.

Salem-News.com

(SALEM, Ore.) - Missing swimmer Zacharey Harle's body was located this morning on the Willamette river. Polk County Sheriff's Office Spokesman Dean Bender says deputies are on scene to recover the body.

Zacharey was swimming across the river Tuesday with his 17-year-old friend Alexander Klawuhn, when they got about halfway across and got into trouble.

Klawuhn says they thought they could float down to the Railroad Bridge but ended up going past the bridge. That is when 16-year-old Zachery Harle began having trouble staying afloat.

Klawuhn hung on to his friend as long as he could before he had to let go as he too was having trouble staying afloat.

The Polk Sheriff's Office continued the search operations focusing from the last point Zacharey was seen all the way into Yamhill County with the help again of the Newberg Fire Department Water Rescue Dive Team.

Friends of the family have set up a "Celebration Fund" in the name of Zacharey Harle at the Marion & Polk Schools Credit Union, P.O. Box 12398, Salem, Oregon, 97309.