At approximately 1915 hrs on the evening of 05-30-2010, Officer received a call from Reservoir Patrol reporting a boat collision just north of Ratliff Ferry with two fatalities.  Officers were the first responders on scene at apporximately 1925 hrs officers checked victims for injuries and called for medical attention.  Officer spoke with R.N. that had checked the bodies of the victims for a pulse.  She reported no pulse had been found on either victim.  Officer asssisted with loading victim in boat for medical attention.  Officer asked a surviving victim if he needed medical attention, which he declined.  

Surviving victim stated to Officer that the driver Operator1 was coming up river from Ratliff and looked like Operator1 was just going to throw a wake onto the two victims in the parked vessels.  Instead Operator1 came straight and shot up the bank with the vessel striking victim1 and himself.  Officer identified the driver of the vessel as Operator1.  Officer asked Operator1 of any injuries and if he needed medical attention, which he declined.  

Officer read Operator1 his Miranda rights before questioning.  Officer questioned Operator1 about the events of the boat collision.  Operator1 stated he had lost control of the steering and that the vessel took a turn right into the path of two docked vessels.  Officer could smell the odor of intoxicating beverage.  Operator1 replied that he had around six drinks.  Officer offered field sobriety, which Operator1 refused.  Officer detained Operator1 and transported him to Reservoir Command Center at Ratliff Ferry.  Operator1 was given the intoxilyzer 8000 which showed a result of .09 BAC.  Operator1 was then transported to University Medical Center for his injuries.  Officer secured a search warrent for the drawing of bodily fluids of Operator1 which was signed.  Officer arrived at University Medical Center and spoke with head R.N..  Officer witnessed the blood drawn by R.N. at approximately 2215 hrs Officer secured the blood specimen in his custody.  Operator1 was released to University Medical Center.  

Officer from (Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks) photographed the scene.  Officer contacted Rankin County Coroner and released custody of the two deceased victims.  

The three vessels involved were towed and secured by Sea-Tow.  On 06-01-2010, Officer signed custody of the blood samples over to Mississippi Crime Lab for testing.  Officer made contact with witnesses (three people, and Surviving victim) to get voluntary statements.  On 06-02-2010, Officer met with Lt. and Cpt. (both with Wildlfie, Fisheries, and Parks) at the Sportsmen's Marina to inpsect the vessels involved in the boating fatalities.  On 06-06-2010, Officer went out to the accident scene to take photos of the damage to bank and tree.  Officer took GPS reading of the site and also scrapped the above tree for evidence purposes.  An investigation report was then filled out by Officer on the above boat collision and turned into Jackson and District 3 office.  Further charges pending blood results.

Canton                        