GREENVILLE – Friends and classmates are mourning the loss of a 17-year-old in Pitt County, the third student athlete to drown in North Carolina since Memorial Day.

Multiple sources reported the The body of 17-year-old Devantae Dortch was pulled from the Tar River in Pitt County around 4:30 p.m. Saturday. Dortch was a junior football player at D.H. Conley High School in Greenville. Dortch had dived into the river while playing with other teens, but he never resurfaced, according to local fire officials.

The follows the deaths of two other student athletes elsewhere in the state.

Marcos Hernandez, a 17-year-old junior rugby player, drowned Tuesday while swimming with friends in Mountain Island Lake near Charlotte.

Justice Clark, an 18-year-old senior football player, drowned on Memorial Day while swimming with friends at a Lillington pond.