Post by Woody Williams on Jan 13, 2009 9:35:36 GMT -5
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Hunters body found in Ky Lake.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Whether it was football or duck hunting, high school classmates Trevor Williams and Tyler Heathcott did it together.
But Saturday, what started a fun day of hunting on a western Kentucky lake ended when their boat capsized, killing Williams and leaving Heathcott barely conscious when he was plucked from the cold water.
Two other young hunters aboard the boat had not been found as of Monday evening.
Williams and Heathcott, both seniors, started two seasons on the offensive line for the Mayfield High School football team, said head coach Joe Morris. Williams played center, and Heathcott was next to him at left guard. Morris said he was told one of the missing hunters also was a football players.
He called the three good friends who loved the outdoors "quality kids who had a great work ethic."
"We all knew they hunted all the time," Morris said. "That's what they enjoyed doing."
Searchers found the body of the 18-year-old Williams in Little Bear Creek on Kentucky Lake, said Marshall County Coroner Mitchell Lee.
It was Shane James who pulled Heathcott out of the choppy waters onto a pontoon boat about 300 to 400 yards from shore. James was remodeling a house near Kentucky Lake in Gilbertsville when a neighbor alerted him that someone was in the water.
When James reached him, the young duck hunter was wearing a life jacket but was so cold that he could not even wave his hands as his rescuers approached, James said.
"He was just barely conscious," James said in a phone interview Monday. "He could talk just enough to say that he couldn't move. He was just blue and freezing to the touch."
James said he and the neighbor wrapped the teen in a sweat shirt and a tarp on the pontoon. He said the teen later told him that three others had fallen in the lake near Paducah, but he didn't know where they were.
James said he returned to look for other survivors but only found hip waders, tennis shoes and some floating debris.
Williams did not have on a life jacket when his body was recovered, said Lee, who would not name the two missing hunters.
Hunters body found in Ky Lake.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Whether it was football or duck hunting, high school classmates Trevor Williams and Tyler Heathcott did it together.
But Saturday, what started a fun day of hunting on a western Kentucky lake ended when their boat capsized, killing Williams and leaving Heathcott barely conscious when he was plucked from the cold water.
Two other young hunters aboard the boat had not been found as of Monday evening.
Williams and Heathcott, both seniors, started two seasons on the offensive line for the Mayfield High School football team, said head coach Joe Morris. Williams played center, and Heathcott was next to him at left guard. Morris said he was told one of the missing hunters also was a football players.
He called the three good friends who loved the outdoors "quality kids who had a great work ethic."
"We all knew they hunted all the time," Morris said. "That's what they enjoyed doing."
Searchers found the body of the 18-year-old Williams in Little Bear Creek on Kentucky Lake, said Marshall County Coroner Mitchell Lee.
It was Shane James who pulled Heathcott out of the choppy waters onto a pontoon boat about 300 to 400 yards from shore. James was remodeling a house near Kentucky Lake in Gilbertsville when a neighbor alerted him that someone was in the water.
When James reached him, the young duck hunter was wearing a life jacket but was so cold that he could not even wave his hands as his rescuers approached, James said.
"He was just barely conscious," James said in a phone interview Monday. "He could talk just enough to say that he couldn't move. He was just blue and freezing to the touch."
James said he and the neighbor wrapped the teen in a sweat shirt and a tarp on the pontoon. He said the teen later told him that three others had fallen in the lake near Paducah, but he didn't know where they were.
James said he returned to look for other survivors but only found hip waders, tennis shoes and some floating debris.
Williams did not have on a life jacket when his body was recovered, said Lee, who would not name the two missing hunters.
