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Arnold Brown, 50, who was living on a boat in the Intracoastal Waterway was found floating unconscious by a person who pulled him to shore as paramedics arrived to a 9-1-1 call and perrformed CPR before transporting him to Bert Fish Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Why 50-year-old Arnold Brown was floating in the Intracoastal Waterway has yet to be dertimined in the wake of his death Wednesday morning when he was pulled ashore unconscious by a bystander as reponding paramedics tried to revive him.
There were no signs of foul play, said Cmdr. Bill Drossman of the incident just north of the North Causeway Bridge in the 100 block of North Peninsula.
"He apparently was living on a boat anchored on the river," Drossman said of the victim, who was dicovered floating in the waterway just before 11 a.m.
The call initially came in as a woman's body, possibly because of long hair, police said.
After a bystander waded into the water and pulled the unconscious Brown ashore, New Smyrna Beach fire dcepartment paramedics performed CPR on him before he was transported by bEVAC to Bert Fish where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
New Smyrna Berach oolice were assisted at the scene by the U.S. Coast Guard and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Anyone with information on the incident is asked to please call New Smyrna Beach Police Detective Richard Roberts at 386-424-2251.