A man and his three young children found dead in a car submerged in a lake after they went fishing died accidentally and the man was drunk, officials in Indiana said Wednesday. Kyle Moorman, 27, of Indianapolis, and his children – one-year-old Kyran Holland, Kyannah Holland and five-year-old Kyle Moorman II – died of freshwater drowning, and the father also had acute ethanol poisoning, the Marion County Coroner’s Office. Their bodies were found on July 12 in the sunken car in the lake. The family went missing after leaving on July 6 to go to the lake on the south side of Indianapolis. Officers went to the lake on July 12 after a report of a dead person in the water. One man was pronounced dead and a dive team later found a vehicle with the bodies of three children inside, police said at the time. Family and friends of the Moormans had offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to their whereabouts. They had searched the lake and the surrounding area for days. Moorman’s sister, Mariah Moorman, had said her brother’s phone was last dropped near the lake at about 12:40 a.m. on July 7, just hours after it was seen. She said her brother often went night fishing. “As far as we know, he was coming out here to go fishing,” he told the Indianapolis Star at the time. “That’s what he told my sister. It’s not strange. He does it all the time.”
