RedactedNarrative: On thursday may 23, 2019, Victim and subject were sailing the “levre” a 34 foot sailboat belonging to Victim. The two men had picked up the sailboat from hampstead where it had been repainted and they were sailing it back to swansboro where their home port was. Victim was operating the vessel and occupant was rigging the sails. According to occupant, the entire trip they had been under power because the wind was very light less than 5mph. When they came into swansboro, the wind had picked up 10 to 15 mph. Victim wanted to sail around the waterfront to advertise his sailing business. The wind blew Victim's hat off his head and into the water.  He turned the wheel hard to the left causing the sailboat to jibe.  The boom swung around and hit Victim in the forehead.  He then was knocked into the water.  He was semi-conscious and face up in the water when occupant saw him.  
  
  Occupant told him he would swing back around and get him.  Occupant had to drop all the sails and it took him several minutes to do this.  Then he made two passes and he still was not able to get close enough to Victim.  He saw that Victim was face down in the water, so he jumped into the water to rescue him.  Occupant gave rescue breaths to Victim and supported him in the water, but he was not able to get him back into the boat because the ladder would not drop.  Occupant screamed for help and was passed by two vessels.  
  
  The third vessel stopped and rendered assistance.  A female passenger aboard the boat that stopped to help jumped into the water to help rescue both men. They were able to get Victim into the boat and immediately started cpr.  The female wrote in her statement that she believed Victim was already deceased at this point.  He had foam coming out of his mouth and his lips were blue.  Occupant also stated that he had blood coming out of his left eye socket. Victim was taken to the nearest dock, the saltwater grill.  Ems had already been called but was not on scene yet.  When they got to the dock, the coast guard took over chest compressions.  When ems arrived, they applied an aed to try and revive Victim.  This attempt was unsuccessful.  
  
  Time of death was 17:51. I spoke with the medical examiner who stated that Victim died from drowning due to blunt force trauma to his head.  After interviewing occupant, he stated that he had been drinking that day.  I asked him if Victim had been drinking and he stated no.  I am waiting on a blood report from the medical examiners office.
  
  ******report will be updated when the medical examiner's report is received*****
  