MAPLE LAKE  (AP) — A California man who was pulled from a central Minnesota lake died over the weekend despite efforts from bystanders to save his life.

The Wright County sheriff's office says deputies were called Saturday to Sugar Lake, near the city of Maple Lake, about 30 miles northwest of Minneapolis. When they arrived, they found people performing CPR on 75-year-old Edward Solomon, of Menlo Park, Calif., who had been swimming went he went under.

Solomon died Sunday at St. Cloud Hospital.

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