Name of northern NY drowning victim released DEXTER, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of the 74-year-old man who drowned in a river while camping in northern New York. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department says Richard Percy of Dexter was found unconscious late Monday night on the banks of the Black River in the village of Dexter, near Lake Ontario’s northeastern shore 67 miles north of Syracuse. Read more on Greenwich Time