UPDATE | Body found in Lake Washington identified as missing swimmer

The body pulled from Lake Washington near Marina Park Thursday morning has been identified as the swimmer who went missing Aug. 22.

The death of 20-year-old Javed Khan was ruled an accidental drowning.

Authorities pulled his body from Lake Washington Thursday morning after receiving a 911 call from a boater at 8:31 a.m.

King County Sheriff’s divers searched all week for Khan, who went for a swim in Juanita Bay Saturday evening and never resurfaced. Family and friends kept vigil in the park, beginning Sunday as they awaited word from police.

“He was a very nice, loving kid,” Javed's father Mohammed Khan said on Monday at Juanita Bay Park. “Everyone loved him.”

Khan had been on one of two boats rafted together when he went for a swim in Lake Washington, about 800 feet off the 9700 block of Juanita Drive, according to King County Sgt. John Urquhart.

The Kirkland Fire Department and other agencies began their search at about 7 p.m. Saturday when a man called to report his friend went missing from their boat.

"The search is complicated by weeds growing from the lake bed that are very dense and from five to 15 feet tall," said Urquhart Tuesday, adding the Sheriff's Office Marine Unit is deploying a different type of scanning sonar than was used Monday, "which will hopefully produce better results."

Mohammed said his son, who is an engineering student at Lake Washington Technical College, was observing the first day of Ramadan, Islam’s holy month of self-purification.

“He was going to get his degree,” said his father.

“The community has been very supportive.”

Mohammed wondered if the all-day fasting made his son too weak to survive the water.

Police say alcohol is possibly a factor in the incident.

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