RedactedNarrative: On 05/09/2015 a boating accident happened on Boone Lake.  The day of the accident Boone Lake was approximately 1353 feet above sea level.  This level is below normal summer pool, around 1385 feet above sea level, at this time of year due to the lake being drawn down for repairs to the dam. The following synopsis is from interviews and physical evidence found by investigators.
  
  The exact time of the accident is unknown.  Victim left his house according to his wife between 3:30-4am Eastern Standard Time to go fishing.  Victim put on the water at the only ramp available due to low water, Pickens Bridge access, before daylight.  Official sunrise for Johnson City that morning was 6:28am.  The victim''s boat was seen by one witness nosed in on the shore around an area known as Gilligan''s Island at 6:10-6:12am with the navigation lights burning.  The boat was unoccupied and Subject thought the operator had gone on shore.  No damage was observed by Subject due to low light and distance from the boat.  Another witness, Witness1, pulled up to the shore where the boat was around 8:03am.  Witness1 was going to fish the point when he noticed the damage to the unoccupied boat.  Witness1 then discovered the victim''s body lying face up at the mouth of a shallow pool approximately 40-50 yards from the boat and called Washington County 911 at 8:04am.  Witness1 said he could see the embankment where the damaged boat had skipped across the shore.  
   
  TWRA officers arrived at the accident scene at 10:01am.  Officers determined the victim''s boat was traveling downstream, struck the exposed shore, ramped, and went airborne.  The boat then came back down on shore leaving impact evidence, rolled, completely over, and traveled back into the water in an up right position still in forward gear.  The boat was found upright and upstream of the impact area.  The distance from shore impact to where the boat went back into the water was measured at 130 feet.  Victim''s operator experience and formal boat education are unknown.  
  
  There was no alcohol present at the scene.  The autopsy report showed drugs were present in the Victim''s body at time of death, but were in normal ranges for someone suffering from chronic pain.  The autopsy also stated death was caused by drowning in association with blunt force injuries.
  
  The incident was presented to the Sullivan County Grand Jury on August 11, 2015, and no action was taken.  The Sullivan County District Attorney General closed the investigation file on August 20, 2015, with the ruling of the Grand Jury.
   