RedactedNarrative: On June 5th, 2016, at approximately 1302 hours, I, Ranger (Rng.) of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Division-Critical Incident Reconstruction Team (GA DNR LED CIRT), received a call from GA DNR LED Corporal (Cpl.), who advised of a fatality boating incident that had occurred earlier that date on Randy Poynter Lake, in Rockdale County, Georgia.  Cpl. advised that the boating incident would now be a CIRT incident investigation, and to proceed accordingly.  I then initiated a CIRT investigation at that time.
  
  	Cpl. advised that on June 5th, 2016, at approximately 1015 hours, he received a call from Rockdale County, Georgia 911 Dispatch concerning a male subject who had died while boating on Randy Poynter Lake, at Black Shoals Park, in Rockdale County, Georgia.  Cpl. advised that he arrived on scene at approximately 1030 hours, and proceeded across the lake by vessel to the incident scene, where Victim was located.  Cpl. advised that Emergency Medical Services (EMS) were on scene at that time, performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on Victim.  EMS then requested that Cpl. go back across the lake, in order to obtain a back-board from the boat-ramp area.  He returned to the incident scene with the back-board, and Victim was positioned inside of Cpl.’s vessel.  Cpl. advised that he transported Victim to the boat-ramp area, as EMS continued CPR on him.  EMS then transported Victim to the Rockdale County Hospital.  Victim was pronounced dead at approximately 1104 hours at the Hospital.  His body was then taken to the Dekalb County Coroner's Office.  Cpl. advised that he believed Victim may have sustained a myocardial infarction (heart attack).  Cpl. advised that Victim was allegedly obese, smoked heavily, and was diabetic. 
  
  	At the incident scene, Cpl. advised that he proceeded to meet with four witnesses.  He interviewed them, and obtained their written statements regarding what had occurred.  According to Cpl., he gathered the following information.  Victim's friend stated that at approximately 1000 hours, both she and Victim were fishing out of two separate kayaks, near each other.  Each subject possessed the required personal flotation devices (PFDs) in their respective vessels.  Subject1 stated that she owned each kayak being utilized.  Victim operated a Sun Dolphin-Aruba ten-foot kayak at the time of incident.  At that time, Victim was located approximately two-hundred yards northeast from the boat-ramp, and approximately fifty yards southwest from the nearest lake-bank.  Subject1 stated that she saw Victim reach for a minnow, and then fall out of the kayak into the water.  She advised that he went completely under water.  He was not wearing a PFD.  She advised that the kayak capsized, and that Victim began swimming.  She advised that he quickly became incoherent, and began swimming towards the boat-ramp area, which was across the lake.  She advised that she explained to Victim that he was going the wrong way, and that he then swam back towards the kayak she was in.  She noticed that he was having difficulty swimming.  Subject1 stated that Victim got fatigued, and he held onto her hand, as she remained in her kayak.  She paddled with one hand, and attempted to pull Victim to the nearest lake-bank.  She stated that Victim then became extremely fatigued, advised he was hurting, and went unconscious.  Subject1 stated that Victim's head never went under water (other than the initial time he fell into the water).  Another boater stated that he responded to the scene, and assisted in dragging Victim to the lake-bank.  Subject1, and subject2 stated that they began CPR on Victim…  
  