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HS Student Dies After Falling Into Hudson River HS Student Dies After Falling Into Hudson River
HS Student Dies After Falling Into Hudson River Classmates are mourning the death of a high school student who died after falling into the Hudson River. Albany County resident Matthew Billetts, age 16, died Monday afternoon, June 13, according to a statement from the Watervliet City School District. He had been fishing with a friend and apparently suffered an unknown medical episode when he fell off the dock at Hudson Shores Park, News 10 ABC in Albany reports. It took dive teams nearly an hour to recover the boy’s body, the outlet reports. Billetts was a junior at Watervliet Jr.-Sr. High School. His death came just 11 days before the …

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by Michael Mashburn