A Texas man jumped into Lake Texoma to help someone who fell in, but he was separated from the boat in high winds and drowned. The body of 51-year-old Gary Oldfield from Fate, Texas, was recovered on Monday, days after he drowned.
Incident Details
At about 5:50 p.m. Friday, nine people from Texas were on a 2022 Crownline boat nine miles south of Kingston, Oklahoma. The boat had just left Buncombe Creek after a storm when it stopped in open water. The driver of the boat and another passenger jumped into the water and were hanging on to the back of the vessel. During that time, another passenger fell into the lake.
Oldfield jumped into the lake to help the person who fell in. However, he became separated from the boat due to high winds and went under the water without resurfacing. Wind speeds were between 29 and 44 mph at the time of the incident.
Original reporting: Oklahoma City News Feed (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
