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Victim Identified In Catoosa County Drowning

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Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2012 · News & Politics

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by Alyssa Spirato  An 18-year-old boy drowns in a Catoosa County creek,  leaving area neighbors in shock.A spokesperson from the Department of Natural Resources tells NewsChannel9 the call was placed to dispatchers around 7 p.m. Saturday evening after they say Damond Beck jumped in the water to save a friend, but never made it back out.Martha Nix has lived at her home on Lillian Street for over 52 years. She says it was around eight Saturday night when a neighbor knocked on her front door."One of my neighbors told me that it was a 17-year-old boy that lived on the other side of the creek that had been reported, his friends saw him go under the water, but didn't come back up," says Nix.That's when Nix says she walked outside and sat in her gazebo. She says she was shocked at what she saw next."All of a sudden, here comes emergency vehicles, comes pickup trucks with boats," says Nix.The commotion caused many long time neighbors like Jimmy Williams to stop and watch."All the vehicles started coming down the road and we went down there to find out what was going on, and found out that there had been a drowning," says Williams.Authorities say Beck was at Chickamauga Creek with friends, when one of his friends slipped and fell into the creek. Both Beck and another jumped in to help. When the friend turned back around in the water, Beck was no where to be found.His body was recovered hours later by an underwater camera."We're all praying for him. You know,  I guess its part of life. We never know when life is going to end," says Williams.The Department of Natural Resources says Beck's body was found 75 feet from where he disappeared.Stay tuned to NewsChannel9 for this developing story.

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