SARATOGA LANDING – A Nashville man is dead following an incident Friday morning in open water of Millwood Lake off Saratoga Landing in Hempstead County.
Randy Zellers, Assistant Chief of Communications with the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission, issued the following statement to the Little River Journal:
“Game Wardens were notified of the boat doing circles near Saratoga Landing on Millwood Lake at 8:16 am, (Friday) November 6th. When they arrived, they found the victim’s body and autopsy results are pending to determine exact cause of death. The victim, 51-year-old Duce Rhodes of Nashville, Arkansas, was not wearing a life jacket at the time of the incident and the kill switch for the boat was not operational. The death is being investigated as a boating accident, and is still under investigation.”
Hempstead County Sheriff’s Deputies and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were among agencies that responded.