Authorities have recovered the bodies of multiple drowning victims in northeast Oklahoma over the Fourth of July weekend, including at least two at Grand Lake.
According to multiple news reports, officers with the Grand River Dam Authority Police Department recovered the body of Levi Gibson, 39, of Afton, around 5 p.m. Friday.
Witnesses told police Gibson jumped off of a boat into the lake to help a child who'd fallen off a device being towed behind the boat. Gibson did not resurface.
Officers also responded to a drowning at Flint Creek Waterpark in Colcord. Citizens pulled a 26-year-old man from the water and attempted CPR, but he was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency medical services. Police have not released his name.
Several other drownings were reported elsewhere throughout Oklahoma over the Fourth of July weekend, including a double drowning at Keystone Lake on Thursday, the afternoon of the holiday.
The victims were Nathaniel A. Richardson, 39, and a 14-year-old boy, according to the Pawnee County Sheriff's Office.
Troopers with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, whose dive team recovered the victims' bodies, said the 14-year-old boy fell into the Appalachia Bay waters and began to struggle. Richardson, believed to be the boy's father, jumped into the water in an attempt to rescue him, but neither came back up.
Investigators also have not released the name of another victim, an 18-year-old male from Oklahoma City, as reported by Fox 23 News in Tulsa. The news station reported that the victim was swimming with friends in the Locust Grove area Friday when he jumped from the roof of a dock into Grand Lake.
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