On 9/13/23 I Officer received a call from Cpt. at approximately 0130  about a boat accident that occurred in the West Fork of the Stones River. Cpt. had received the call from RCSO about the accident. I arrived on scene around 0150 at West Fork Boat Ramp. Once on scene I learned that RCSO had received a call from MPD in regards to a missing person. MPD was pinging the phone and the location was showing about a mile upstream on the Stones River from West Fork Boat Ramp. 

RCSO launched a drone from the boat ramp and went to the location where the phone was pinging. They located a small white aluminum vessel floating in the water with no occupants. At that time Rutherford County Special Ops launched a boat and headed to the location. Once at the location they were able to determine the vessel belonged to the missing person from the report. 

It was at this time Cpt. was notified of the situation. The Special Ops boat began to side scan as well as looking on the surface and bank for Victim. A few minutes after searching they were able to locate a body of a male individual upright and floating just above the surface of the water about 100-150 yards downstream of the vessel. 

They recovered the body and confirmed it was Victim. At this time MPD was able to make contact with the daughter of Victim and deliver the death notification.  Victim was then transported back to the boat ramp. At 0230 I got onto the Special Operations boat and returned to the scene to recover the vessel and took it back to the boat ramp. Victim''s truck and trailer was located at the boat ramp. His truck was secured and the trailer was moved over to my vehicle to load up and transport boat from the scene. The vessel was later parked and inventoried at Percy Priest WMA in La Vergne, TN.

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