Body of Missing Boater Found in Lake Cherokee
Posted/updated on: July 26, 2012 at 10:54 am
EAST TEXAS — The body of a drowning victim has been recovered from Lake Cherokee. The body of Kim Grounds was recovered yesterday and the investigation will continue. His body will be sent to the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas for autopsy.
The Gregg County Sheriff’s Department said, the 44-year-old Mount Enterprise man was one of two people aboard a boat, but he didn’t make it back to shore. Members of the Texas DPS, Texas Parks and Wildlife Service, Rusk County Sheriff’s Office and the Lake Cherokee Patrol were on had to assist in the recovery operation.
