On 5/12/23 I, Officer, received a call from Capt. at 0205 about a boating incident at Poole''s Knob Boat Ramp on Percy Priest Lake. The report was a small vessel with six individuals on board capsized, and one 19 year old male was missing. 

I arrived on scene at approximately 0240. Once on scene I spoke with Rutherford County Rescue and confirmed five individuals were rescued with one person still missing. La Vergne PD was also on scene and assisted with locating the missing persons vehicle at Bryant''s Grove Boat Ramp to help ID him. Shortly after we were able to determine our missing individual was 19 year old who was also the owner of the vessel. 

We interviewed the other five individuals involved. We learned that around 0100 all six individuals had boarded a 14 foot john boat from an island on  Percy Priest Lake, that they had been fishing at, to return to the boat ramp at Bryant''s Grove. 

The operator of the vessel was seated at the back. Shortly after leaving the shore the vessel began to take on water from the front due to overloading. The vessel then swamped and capsized sending all individuals into the water. 

Five were able to make it back to the shore. The operator did not make it back to shore and was missing. 911 was called around 0150 to report the incident by one of the individuals involved.  Rutherford County Rescue was able to find a good target using sonar in the area of the incident. At approximately 0500 Capt. arrived on scene with the ROV. While Capt. and Capt. were investigating the target provided by Rutherford County Rescue, Officer and I went to the address of family to inform them of the situation. The ROV was able to locate the body in 9 feet of water at 0713. The body was recovered by divers at 0717. Once the body was confirmed, the death notification was given to the family around 0730. The ME''s office was contacted, and the body was transported to Davidson County.

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