RedactedNarrative: On May 2nd, 2020, at approximately 16:30, I, Game Warden, along with Sargent were contacted by GSP regarding a subject down on Little River in Cherokee County. 
  
  At approximately 17:30, we arrived at the location of 524 River Estates Pkwy. We contacted Cherokee Fire and Sheriff officers and they escorted us to the two individuals on the riverbank. Once at the riverbank, I contacted Subject1, who was the son of the deceased Victim. I asked Subject1 what happened, and he told me they were canoeing down the river when they came up upon a tree that was sticking out from the riverbank. 
  
  His father was in the rear of the canoe and was the one responsible for steering the boat. He told me that they knew the branch was there and he did not know what happened. He tried to steer around the branch but could not. The branch hit Subject1 in the chest and knocked him and his father off the canoe into the water and capsized the canoe. 
  
  Both individuals resurfaced and proceeded to swim to shore. Subject1 said his father was swimming on his own and just said he needed to get to shore quickly. Subject1 made it to shore with the canoe and said about ten foot from shore his father went under water for a second. Subject1 said he swam towards his father to help him out. Once he got to his father, he noticed he was unresponsive and pulled him to shore. 
  
  He started CPR and proceeded for 22 minutes until Cherokee Fire arrived. Cherokee Fire performed CPR for another 45 minutes and Mr. Subject1 was still unresponsive. Cherokee Fire stopped CPR and called the Coroner for pronouncing time of death. I asked Subject1 if he was wearing PFD’s at the time of the incident.  He said they just took them off but did have them in the canoe. 
  
  I asked how many times he had been on this section of the river. He told me he has been on it nine times in the past two months. He said his father has been with him three of those times. They are both experienced on that canoe and familiar with that section of the river.
  
   Cherokee Fire launched a jet river boat to pick up the deceased and transport him to awaiting ambulance for transfer to the GBI crime lab for investigation/determination of official cause of death. I transported Subject1 to the ambulance location and then to his house. I gave him my contact information and the information for the Corners officer. 
  The corner pronounced time of death for Victim on May 02, 2020 at 18:51 hours.
  