SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- Closing arguments were made Wednesday in the civil trial regarding an 18-year-old who drowned while swimming at Mission Beach in 2022. The family of Crawford High School graduate, Woodlain Zachee Prudhomme, filed a lawsuit in May 2023 against the City of San Diego for ne gligence, alleging the lifeguards on duty on the day of his death did not warn beachgoers of the presence of dangerous rip currents. San Diego joins lawsuit against federal firings On June 14, 2022, Prudhomme and two of his friends were celebrating their high school graduation at Mission Beach. Authorities said a lifeguard tower noticed the group in the water was in distress around 3:30 p.m. Lifeguards with the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department rescued two of the teens, but Prudhomme disappeared underwater. Rescue crews searched the area for several days following the incident but were unable to locate his body. According to Prudhomme's family in the lawsuit, the teen entered the dangerous area at the direction of a city lifeguard and was swept out by a rip current. They said that if their son had known of the rip current, he “would not have gone in the water in that area at all.” According to his loved ones, Prudhomme was a basketball player at Crawford High School who dreamed of playing in the NBA. Jurors will now deliberate whether the city lifeguard who directed Prudhomme to the area where he got caught in a rip current was negligent in his actions, or whether the teen knowingly entered the dangerous part of the water that led to his death. ...read more read less