Country Club Shores man found dead in pool

A Country Club Shores man was found dead in the bottom of his swimming pool June 23, according to a Longboat Key police report.

Marvin Jaffe, 78, was found lying at the bottom of his pool in the 600 block of Halyard Lane around 10:30 a.m. June 23.

Longboat Key Public Works employees Curtis Vandermolen and Lloyd Hind were summoned to the pool area by Jaffe’s wife, who discovered him lying at the bottom of the pool.

Vandermolen and Hind jumped into the pool to retrieve Jaffe, and Longboat Key Police Officer Lee Smith performed CPR on Jaffe until firefighter/paramedics arrived.

Firefighter/paramedics who arrived on the scene pronounced Jaffe dead at 10:39 a.m.

Police observed a wet swimsuit and a yellow life vest on the southeast side of the pool, along with a baseball cap and a pair of sunglasses.

Jaffe’s wife, Susan Alexander, told police she had finished swimming and her husband was making plans to swim when she went back into the house. Alexander said he used a life vest because of a muscle issue that made his legs weak.

While she was in the house, she saw her husband performing leg exercises on the side of the pool, which he performed before he puts on his life vest and enters the pool.

Alexander said she soon noticed he disappeared from the pool deck and found him at the bottom of the pool and called 911.

The home was in order, and Detective Sgt. Robert Bourque does not believe the death was the result of foul play.