No further details were available Tuesday on Fridayâs drowning on the Comal River that claimed the life of a 62-year-old New Mexico man.
Police said Albert L. Aranda, 62, from Farmington, New Mexico did not immediately resurface after going through the city Tube Chute. He was pulled from the water but efforts to revive him at the scene and at a New Braunfels hospital were unsuccessful.
David Ferguson, city communications coordinator, said New Braunfels police and fire units arrived on the scene around 3:15 p.m. Friday.
âOfficers arrived to find that lifeguards and citizens had pulled the man from the water and lifeguards performed CPR on the man until paramedics arrived on the scene,â he said. âThe man was then transported to Christus Santa Rosa Hospital in New Braunfels where he was later pronounced deceased.â