Brad Reeves, Game Warden with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, shared the following details regarding the Sunday evening drowning of a 26-year-old local man at Flat Rock Park Sunday.

“He jumped off the fishing pier at Flat Rock Park just swimming, and apparently he wasn’t a very good swimmer, that’s what the family reported,” Reeves said. “He jumped off the pier and was just having fun, but he went under and didn’t resurface. It appears to be a swimming mishap.”

Regarding the recovery efforts, Reeves said, “We started operations within 35 minutes of him going under once we got all our equipment here and worked until midnight last night when the storms started blowing in and we had to stop operations. We got back here at 6:30 a.m. and found him a little bit after 8 a.m.”

Blaylock Funeral Home sent BrownwoodNews.com a pending obituary for Tyler Massey, 26, late Monday morning and confirmed he was the drowning victim.