BRAINERD -- A school staff member drowned while on a retreat with a group of students.

The Crow Wing County Sheriff's Office says on Monday at about 1:30 p.m. they responded to Northstar Camp near Brainerd for a report that a staff member from a school had gone underwater.

Upon arrival, Deputies learned a student, who was with the group, was able to retrieve the victim, 30‐year‐old  Alan Garcia of Hutchinson. Garcia was employed at Maplewood Academy in Hutchinson.

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Garcia was transported to Essentia Health – St Joseph’s Medical Center in Brainerd, where he died.

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