According to the MD DNR, an Annapolis man was killed late Sunday night (July 31) when the boat he was on struck a rock jetty near the mouth of Whitehall Creek and he was ejected.
Paul Christopher Dettor, 49, was aboard a 20-foot Boston Whaler with two other men when the boat struck the jetty shortly before 11 p.m. and Dettor was thrown onto the rocks. Officers, Anne Arundel County firefighters, and U.S. Coast Guard personnel located the boat and passengers.
Dettor was flown to Baltimore Shock Trauma Center where he later died of his injuries. The other two men aboard the boat, identified by police as Gregory Bryan Lilly, 48, of Arnold, and John Joseph Wilkens, 49, of Swampcott, MA, were taken to Anne Arundel Medical Center with minor injuries. The Boston Whaler was registered to Lilly.
Police have not yet determined the cause of the accident, though they know Dettor was operating the boat before it crashed. No additional details about the cause of the accident are available at this time.
Dettor worked as a financial advisor and he was also a board member for Fish For a Cure. He leaves behind a wife and two children. Dettor is Maryland’s eighth boating fatality of 2016.
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 - 09:33
According to the MD DNR, an Annapolis man was killed late Sunday night (July 31) when the boat he was on struck a rock jetty near the mouth of Whitehall Creek and he was ejected.
Paul Christopher Dettor, 49, was aboard a 20-foot Boston Whaler with two other men when the boat struck the jetty shortly before 11 p.m. and Dettor was thrown onto the rocks. Officers, Anne Arundel County firefighters, and U.S. Coast Guard personnel located the boat and passengers.
Dettor was flown to Baltimore Shock Trauma Center where he later died of his injuries. The other two men aboard the boat, identified by police as Gregory Bryan Lilly, 48, of Arnold, and John Joseph Wilkens, 49, of Swampcott, MA, were taken to Anne Arundel Medical Center with minor injuries. The Boston Whaler was registered to Lilly.
Police have not yet determined the cause of the accident, though they know Dettor was operating the boat before it crashed. No additional details about the cause of the accident are available at this time.
Dettor worked as a financial advisor and he was also a board member for Fish For a Cure. He leaves behind a wife and two children. Dettor is Maryland’s eighth boating fatality of 2016.