Tourist swimming with his family drowns in Myrtle Beach, coroner says
A man on vacation was swimming with his family in Myrtle Beach when he drowned this week, the Horry County coroner announced Thursday.
Wednesday night at 10:10 p.m. Andrew Smith was pulled from the ocean near 22nd Ave South in Myrtle Beach.
He was transported to Grand Strand Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 11:20 p.m. of asphyxiation due to drowning.
He was 44 years old and visiting from Lawrenceburg, Kentucky with his family, several of which were swimming in the ocean with him.
Gerard Albert III
The Sun News