(May 6, 2020). Around 7:10 p.m. on May 6th 2020 Officers with the Nacogdoches Police Department along with deputies from the Nacogdoches Sheriff’s Office and Texas Game Wardens responded to a report of a boating accident on the west side of Lake Nacogdoches involving a 10 year old victim. The victim was transported by EMS to Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital and later life flighted to a Fort Worth area hospital.
During the course of the investigation by the Texas Game Wardens and area Law Enforcement Personnel it was determined that an operator of a Jet Ski had struck the child near the bank and then fled the scene. Law Enforcement personnel later located the jet ski that was abandoned on the west side of the lake. No arrests have been made at this time.
This is an ongoing investigation by the Texas Game Wardens.
