The first weekend in June proved deadly on North Texas lakes as two bodies were recovered and another is still missing.
Michael Collins, 43, drowned at Lake Lewisville on June 1. Texas Parks and Wildlife Capt. Cliff Swofford says Collins jumped off a boat located in the party cove area of the lake around 4 pm Sunday. Swofford believes Collins was swimming after an item that he'd spotted in the water. He was not wearing a life jacket.
"It happens all too often," Swofford says. "They'll see an item in the water and start chasing after it, but the winds will push it out farther and farther."
Another deadly accident occurred on Lake Ray Hubbard. According to Dallas police, a 28-year-old Asian male went missing around 6:45 pm on Sunday. His body was recovered three hours later.
Officials are still searching for a missing person at Cedar Creek Reservoir. The Texas Game Warden deployed a dive team on Sunday afternoon after a possible drowning was reported. No body has been found at this time.
The June drownings follow two similar fatalities on North Texas lakes in May. A jet ski accident on Joe Pool Lake claimed one life on May 26, while another man died after jumping into White Rock Lake on May 20.
DALLAS (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice was sentenced to 30 days in jail on Thursday, July 17 after authorities said he and another speeding driver caused a chain-reaction crash that left multiple people injured on a Dallas highway last year.
The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office said Rice pleaded guilty to two third-degree felony charges of collision involving serious bodily injury and racing on a highway causing bodily injury in the March 30, 2024, crash. As part of a plea agreement, Rice was sentenced to five years of deferred probation and 30 days in jail as a condition of his probation, prosecutors said.
The judge will allow Rice, 25, to find a time or times to serve the jail sentence, a spokesperson for the district attorney's office said.
Prosecutors said he was also required to pay the victims for their out-of-pocket medical expenses, which totaled about $115,000.
Rice was driving a Lamborghini Urus SUV at 119 mph (191 kph) when he made “multiple aggressive maneuvers around traffic” and struck other vehicles, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said that after the crash on North Central Expressway, Rice failed to check on the welfare of those in the other vehicles and fled on foot.
The accident was caught on a dashcam video by motorist Bill Nabors.
The news release from prosecutors included a statement from Rice that was released by his attorney. Rice said in the statement that he's had “a lot of sleepless nights thinking about the damages that my actions caused, and I will continue working within my means to make sure that everyone impacted will be made whole.”
“I am profoundly sorry for the physical damages to person and property,” Rice said in the statement. “I fully apologize for the harm I caused to innocent drivers and their families.”
Brian McCarthy, the NFL’s vice president of communication, said in a statement, “We have been closely monitoring all developments in the matter which remains under review."
The Chiefs said Thursday that they did not have a comment.
Rice was leasing the Lamborghini that police said was speeding along with a Corvette when the crash occurred. Rice's attorney has said that the Corvette belonged to Rice. The driver of the Corvette, who police said also left the scene, was also charged in the crash. The status of that case was not immediately clear on Thursday.
Rice, a member of the Super Bowl-winning Chiefs team, is from the Dallas area. He played for SMU in Dallas and grew up in the Fort Worth suburb of North Richland Hills. Rice was selected by the Chiefs in the second round of the 2023 NFL Draft and has caught nine touchdowns in his two seasons with Kansas City.
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AP Sports Writer Dave Skretta contributed to this report from Kansas City, Missouri. It includes archived material from CultureMap.
