Nacogdoches County Drowning
Posted/updated on: January 31, 2017 at 2:19 pm
NACOGDOCHES – Authorities have recovered the body of a man who drowned Saturday in Lake Scoggins, a private lake in Nacogdoches County. The body of Pernell Tutt, 52, of Nacogdoches, was recovered around 10:00 Sunday morning. Tutt and his 83 year old mother Cora were fishing when their flat bottom boat hit a stump, and the woman fell from the boat. The man jumped in the lake to rescue his mother and was able to swim with her to a stump. He tied her hands to the stump to keep her from drowning, but he drowned swimming back to the boat. An 18 year old, who heard the woman screaming, swam to the boat and used it to rescue her.
