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Colleagues wait for word of drowned medic

John English is presumed drowned after jumping off a pleasure boat for a swim on Sunday afternoon

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GRAND HAVEN, Mich. — With little hope he will be found alive, friends, co-workers and relatives are mourning the loss of John English.

The 47-year-old paramedic has been missing since Sunday afternoon, when he jumped into Lake Michigan from a boat about a mile offshore of Grand Haven.

On Monday evening, his colleagues, friends and family members gathered at the water’s edge to mourn and remember him. “This is the last place he was and even though he is not here his spirit might be,” explained friend Kim Helm.

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