RUDY (KFSM) – Rescue crews from Crawford County will resume looking for a 19-year-old man who may have drowned in Frog Bayou at Rudy Tuesday (May 12) morning, according to the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff Ron Brown said the call for a man missing in the flooded creek came in at 3:20 p.m. Monday (May 11). The man was swimming at Grotto swimming hole when he went under and never resurfaced.
"We had a 19-year-old male, a 19-year-old female and 17-year-old female came down here to swim," Brown said. "The 19-year-old male went into the water, just slid into the water to start swimming was holding hands with the 17-year-old. They broke loose and he went down stream, went underwater and he has not surfaced."
The search crews will resume Tuesday morning at 7 a.m.