An update from the Pikeville Fire Department:

 

Pikeville Fire Department was dispatched to assist Kentucky State Police with a subject that had been fleeing on foot from law enforcement and had jumped into the Levisa Fork river in the area behind Long John Silver’s in Pikeville.

 

Witnesses stated that the subject had went under the water after diving in, and never came back up to the surface.

 

Pikeville Fire Department responded quickly to the incident with the department’s Swift Water Technicians. The department also requested assistance from Millard Fire Rescue for their water team and equipment as well.

 

Search and rescue operations began as the department had personnel searching on both the river bank and water. After a few hours of search operations, the subject was found deceased and was successfully recovered by Pikeville Fire Department and Millard Fire Rescue.