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Experienced Swimmer Drowns In Double Head
posted (April 4, 2019)
A 38 year old father of 1 drowned in Double Head Cabbage yesterday afternoon. Percival Flowers Jr. is a well known swimmer and athlete in the village but one dive in the river cost him his life. Courtney Weatherburne has the story of a fatal freak accident.

Courtney Weatherburne reporting
It is still a shock to family and friends that Percival Flowers Jr. drowned yesterday afternoon.

Kimberly Flowers, Sister
"Well like they said you know the best swimmer in the world drown, no one could ever believe it but that is it."

Flowers was known as one of the best swimmers and divers in Double Head Cabbage. He was also an experienced fisherman but something went terribly wrong when he and his friends went for an afternoon dip in the river.

Reporter
"As you said he climbed up on this tree, he usually climbs up on this tree and jumps off?"

Kimberly Flowers, Sister
"Yes it is a normal routine yearly, they go up, all the way up and the jump off but he did a back flip, not sure what went wrong there. The boy said when he got in, he resurfaced back but he didn't yell for help or nothing so they thought everything was okay and went back down and nothing didn't resurface back and they start yelling for him and tell him stop play with us and they start diving and that was it."

His friends dove and searched for him for hours until they found his body after 5:00 yesterday evening. It took that long because the river is deep and Flowers apparently got caught in the eddy.

Percival Flowers Sr., Father
"They found him in a way that he was trying to grab and push his head up but he didn't reach, survive, he ran out of...due to get hurt, he collapsed."

His friends say that it seems Flowers broke his neck when he hurled himself from the tree. Residents cut down the tree last night, they couldn't stand to look at it anymore after Flowers Fatal Fall - it's a great loss to his family and the village.

Kimberly Flowers
"He was a real role model to the community. He was one of the best cricket players, he was very athletic, at basketball everything, he do his best at everything that he loves."

Reporter
"And you guys were very close, he helped you as well fishing?"

Percival Flowers Sr.
"That is my closes son, all the time, all the time, he is the one that stays by my side all the time so I will feel it for a little while but I have to try get over it someday because I will never forget him."

He leaves behind a 4 month old baby girl. It is his first child. The post mortem will be conducted tomorrow.

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