UPDATE: The missing man's body was recovered from Little Elm Beach at Lake Lewisville around 3:30 pm. Cause of death is presumed to be drowning and police say no foul play is suspected. His name has not yet been released.
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Authorities are searching for a 35-year-old man who went missing at Lake Lewisville on July 13. Captain Cliff Swofford with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department says crews responded to the area Sunday evening but have found no trace of the man, who disappeared after telling a friend he was going swimming.
"It's unclear whether he actually went into the water or not," Swofford says. "It's kind of a blind search at this point. We've had crews on the water. We've had crews working in the woods."
In addition to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the search crew includes the fire and police departments of Little Elm and Lewisville.
"It hasn't turned into a recovery operation. He could still be alive and well at this point. We are holding out hope that that is the case," Swofford says.
Lake Lewisville has already been the site of two deaths this summer. Michael Collins, 43, drowned on June 1, and Michael Quach, 38, drowned on June 15.
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.
