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Boy drowns after friends dare him to jump into lake\nEVANSVILLE, Ind. -- A 14-year-old boy who jumped into a chilly lake on a dare apparently drowned after he re-entered the water to retrieve his wallet, police said.\nKevin McClure was pronounced dead Saturday at Deaconess Hospital after friends pulled him out of Garvin Park lake and a police officer tried to revive him.\nMcClure's death remains under investigation, but it appears that he drowned after being overcome with hypothermia while in the lake's 46-degree waters, said Vanderburgh County Chief Deputy Coroner Annie Groves.\nAn autopsy was scheduled Sunday to determine his cause of death.\nMcClure was playing with about 10 other children on a lakeside dock when the others dared him to enter the lake. He took off most of his clothes and jumped in.\n"His wallet ended up in the water; and as he went in to get that, I believe the cold temperature of the water started affecting his motor movements," said Evansville police Detective Gregory Fleck. "He kind of froze up."\nExactly how the boy's wallet landed in the water was unclear, he said.