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
New Braunfels police are investigating the death of a New Mexico man who authorities said went underwater near the New Braunfels Tube Chute on Friday afternoon and failed to immediately resurface.
Police said they and the fire department were called to the area on the Comal River around 3:15 p.m. and found that lifeguards and others had pulled the man from the water and lifeguards were performing CPR.
The man, identified as Albert L. Aranda, 62, from Farmington, New Mexico, was taken to Christus Santa Rosa Hospital - New Braunfels where he was later pronounced dead. Pct. 3 Justice of the Peace Mike Rust has ordered an autopsy.
Man s body pulled from Comal River
Gabriella Ybarra, Staff writer
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A view of the tube chute in Prince Solms Park on the Comal River in New Braunfels. Police say Albert L. Aranda, 62, went underwater near the tube chute and did not resurface.Staff file photo
A 62-year-old man died Friday in an accidental drowning in the Comal River, according to the New Braunfels Police Department.
Police and the New Braunfels Fire Department responded to the New Braunfels tube chute on the Comal River around 3 p.m. for a report of a man who went underwater and did not resurface.
COVID-19 vaccinations are at the give-away stage throughout Comal County, which closed its signup list earlier this week and plans its 23rd and 24th mass vaccine clinics next week.
Cheryl Fraser, public health director reporting to county commissioners on Thursday, said 96,943 shots have been distributed, with 60,467 having received at least one dose of the vaccine and 41,465 have received their second inoculations against the coronavirus.
Fraser said she was âparticularly proudâ that 67.68% of seniors 65 and older (21,627) have received at least one dose and 56.13% (16,394) have received both shots of the vaccine.Â
âThat is our most vulnerable group,â she said.
Fraser estimated the public health office has administered more than 30,000 doses, accounting for 32.98% of total county vaccinations. She said the county conducted its fifth and sixth satellite clinics this week.
Northbound lanes of Interstate 35 were shut down for nearly three hours as police investigated the death of a pedestrian struck and killed by several vehicles Monday evening, they said.
David Ferguson, city communications coordinator, said police were called to the 1900 block of I-35 North, between the Business 35 and Farm-to-Market Road 306 overpasses, around 8:15 p.m.
âThere were reports of a person who had been struck by multiple vehicles in the main lanes of traffic,â Ferguson said. âOfficers arrived, confirmed the fatality, and immediately closed off all of northbound I-35 in that area, and redirected northbound traffic to the access road at North Business 35.â