Body recovered from Snake River

GRANITE POINT – Andrew M. Amuna, 27, of Pullman, drowned at Granite Point on the Snake River on July 24.

“Amuna recently relocated from North Carolina to Pullman for employment,” said Whitman County Sheriff Brett Myers.

The new Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories engineer was fishing when he drowned.

A 9-1-1 call at 4:35 p.m. reported the man missing in the water near the shoreline. It brought first-responders from the Asotin County Sheriff’s Office, Asotin County Fire, Whitman County Fire District 14, and the Whitman County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies and firefighters searched the water using...