{"id":2616,"date":"2023-02-09T17:12:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T23:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2023-02-09T17:12:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T23:12:33","slug":"drowning-south-of-lake-sweetwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/drowning-south-of-lake-sweetwater\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Drowning \u2013 South of Lake Sweetwater<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Saturday afternoon, February 4<sup>th<\/sup>, 2023, the Nolan County Sheriff\u2019s Office was notified of a deceased body being found south of Lake Sweetwater near the area of FM-2035 and County Road 230 where Bitter Creek enters the far south end of Lake Sweetwater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur investigation revealed that the victim apparently died as a result of an accidental drowning.&nbsp; It appears that the victim likely fell from an elevated position in a tree alongside the creek and landed face down in the water.&nbsp; The body was discovered initially by a friend and a family member of the deceased.&nbsp; There were no indications of foul play, but a complete autopsy was performed this week by Texas Panhandle Forensics in Lubbock.&nbsp; The preliminary pathology report lists the manner of death as being accidental with the cause being asphyxia due to drowning,\u201d Sheriff David Warren stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Sheriff Warren, \u201cThe deceased was identified as 35-year-old Robert Anthony Strzelec Jr., of Nolan County.&nbsp; Our investigation will remain open until the final complete autopsy report gets to us which should be in about three weeks.&nbsp; We were assisted in this investigation by our local Texas DPS office and our area Texas Ranger.&nbsp; Members of the Sweetwater Fire Department and Lake Sweetwater Volunteer Fire Department assisted with our efforts including the recovery of the body.&nbsp; Again, this appears to be a tragic accident and our prayers and condolences go out to the family and friends of Robbie Strzelec.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheriff David Warren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday afternoon, February 4th, 2023, the Nolan County Sheriff\u2019s Office was notified of a deceased body being found south of Lake Sweetwater near the area of FM-2035 and County Road 230 where Bitter Creek enters the far south end of Lake Sweetwater. \u201cOur investigation revealed that the victim apparently died as a result of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}