9-year-old King Overton drowns at SwimRVA summer camp in Ri…

Drowning Richmond Virginia in Richmond, Virginia: King Overton, a 9-year-old who could not swim, drowned while attending a summer camp run by the Richmond nonprofit SwimRVA. According to his aunt, camp staff knew he could not swim and a camp worker assured his mother he was in the right place. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner confirmed the cause and manner of death was accidental drowning, with no other medical emergency contributing. The article frames the incident within broader concerns about drowning prevention and Black families' relationship with water.