On April 14, Christopher Gilbert , 26, who was apparently unable to swim, was pushed off the dock at Lake D’Arbonne in Farmerville, Louisiana.
After he was shoved into a lake by his buddies, a medical student suffered serious brain damage. On April 14, Christopher Gilbert, 26, who was apparently unable to swim, was pushed off the dock at Lake D’Arbonne in Farmerville, Louisiana.
The shocking incident was caught on camera. Gilbert struggled to get out of the water for 20 minutes. A woman who initially slowly entered the water backed off, realising the rescue mission was not possible. It was only ten more minutes later that a member of the public at a nearby restaurant came to the rescue and pulled Gilbert from the water.
Gilbert was brain dead when he was taken to the hospital in a critical condition. According to his mother Yolanda George, the rest of his organs had also started to fail. According to The Mirror, George disclosed that her baby was on a ventilator for seventy-two hours, akin to “dialysis for the lungs.”
“At that moment, I felt like my life had ended.”
“I was inconsolable. At that moment, I thought my life had ended. My son will become a doctor; he is not only dreaming to become one. Last year, he earned his master’s degree in biological science. Given that he is getting ready for medical school, the fact that this occurred to him is… “I was just inconsolable,” George remarked, heading to the hospital following his a call from one of the friends.
George told Fox8 that “she told me that Chris had fallen into the lake and he had been underwater for about 20 minutes.” “And I thought, what, 20 minutes? Why did he spend twenty minutes beneath water?
As he was being evacuated to Shreveport, she was sobbing uncontrollably. According to the doctor, my kid was “brain dead pretty much, and the rest of his organs were starting to fail” when he first arrived.
Gilbert’s companion attempted to dismiss the event as “horse-play,” according to the police, stating that he “just kind of fell face first into the water.” Afterwards, though, one of them admitted that she’d shoved Gilbert off the pier.
Family lawyer Claudia Payne stated, “We characterize things the way we see fit in the legal field.” “They are stating horseplay, of course. We contend that there was a deliberate, illegal push into the water.
“To make matters worse, nobody from the ‘buddy group’ tried to pursue him after he was pushed. Rather, his corpse was recovered from the water by two courageous onlookers who are unrelated to Chris, Payne stated in a report.
Gilbert has been exhibiting cognitive reactions, despite his continued incapacity to communicate. He is still on life support and his lungs are only apparently working at 20% capacity.
At this point, Gilbert’s family has demanded an arrest. “Why would you push my son in the lake knowing he couldn’t swim?” said George.