NASHVILLE – Tennessee officials say an 8-year-old boy who drowned in Old Hickory Lake on Friday didn’t have a life jacket.
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency spokesman Doug Markham says Sammy Liradi of Hendersonville persuaded his dad to allow him to swim in a shallow area of the lake, the Two Foot area, without his life jacket. Markham says a gust of wind came up and kept the child in the water.
The Tennessean reported that TWRA officers and Wilson County Emergency Management Agency crews attempted to resuscitate the child after his body was discovered around 7:30 p.m.
He was pronounced dead at Summit Medical Center at 8:20 p.m.