Father and son drown while fishing at Mountain Creek Lake
On Saturday, October 5, at 1:37pm, Dallas Fire Rescue were dispatched to a water rescue call on Mountain Creek Lake near the 2700 block of Mountain Creek Parkway.
Initial reports indicate a child was swept under the water while fishing in a creek just off the lake. The boy’s father jumped in to rescue him and was also swept under. Neither of them resurfaced.
Dallas Fire, Dallas Police, and Texas Game Wardens worked in conjunction to locate the two, and were able to recover the body of the father around 5:00pm on Sunday.
Efforts to locate the boy resumed first thing Sunday morning. The boy’s body was recovered after washing ashore near Mi Familia Park in Grand Prairie on the west shoreline of the lake.
The Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office has taken possession of both bodies. The investigation remains underway.
