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Marshall man drowns in Lamine River

A man drowns in Cooper County after helping a child.

The Highway Patrol says Joseph Johnson jumped in the Lamine River at the Harriman Hill Access near Blackwater at about 7:30 p.m. Monday when he saw a child caught in the current. The Marshall man got could not get himself out of that current.

Johnson was 25 years old.

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