A 19-year-old Houston man spent this week in the county lockup since Saturday, when he was charged with firing shots into the Comal River near the Tube Chute that evening,
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
Heavy rains on Monday prompted closure of the Comal River after river flow increased to nearly 500 cubic feet per second, city officials said,
In a 5 p.m. release, David Ferguson, city communications coordinator, said the current river flow âmeasured 496 cfs, with poor water clarity and debris along the riverbanks and at the Tube Chute dam.â
Ferguson said New Braunfels Police Chief Keith Lane ordered the Comal River closed, with âaccess to the Comal River in New Braunfels for recreation is temporarily closed. City officials will reevaluate river conditions Tuesday morning to determine when river recreation can resume.
The first drowning on the Comal River this season occurred Friday, when a 62-year-old New Me…