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A younger Texas soldier has tragically died after a celebratory bridge soar went horribly fallacious on Labor Day.
Cutter Anderson Baird, 19, from Goldthwaite, Texas, died on Monday after leaping from the Dillingham Avenue Bridge in Columbus, Georgia – a staggering 100 toes above the Chattahoochee River.
The teenage soldier, stationed at close by Fort Moore, was having fun with the vacation with a fellow serviceman after they determined to take the deadly plunge round 2pm.
Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan instructed WTVM that Baird hit the water chest-first in what he described as a ‘stomach flop’.
Cutter Anderson Baird, 19, from Goldthwaite, Texas, died on Monday after leaping from the Dillingham Avenue Bridge in Columbus, Georgia – a staggering 100 toes above the Chattahoochee River
The coroner warned others to keep away from making an attempt the harmful soar, revealing this was the sixth incident on the notorious bridge (Pictured: Dillingham Avenue Bridge view from Chattahoochee riverwalk in Columbus, Georgia)
‘Sadly, he landed like a stomach flop. That is like touchdown on concrete from that distance, which brought on blunt-force trauma to his chest,’ Bryan defined.
Regardless of managing to exit the river, Baird collapsed shortly after as a consequence of an absence of oxygen.
He was rushed to a neighborhood hospital however tragically handed away.
Bryan emphasised that the younger soldier’s loss of life was a heartbreaking accident, not a suicide try.
‘Let’s simply hold this household and mates in our prayers,’ he urged.
The teenage soldier, stationed at close by Fort Moore, was having fun with the vacation with a fellow serviceman after they determined to take the deadly plunge round 2pm
This was not the primary lethal accident on the bridge.
The coroner warned others to keep away from making an attempt the harmful soar, revealing this was the sixth incident on the notorious bridge.
‘I might say, ‘Do not do it,” Bryan cautioned. ‘It is a harmful factor to do.’
‘You by no means know concerning the present, typically it is shallow… there are logs down there,’ he added. ‘We have got a hell of a present right here in Columbus. It’ll pull you down, it is going to suck you right into a gap and you are not going to return out of it.
‘I do not care how good of a swimmer you might be or how robust you might be… what number of occasions you’ve got been out and in of the water.. It solely takes one time earlier than it is going to finish your life.’
Baird reportedly hit the water chest-first in what he described as a ‘stomach flop’
Baird, who served as vice chairman of Rock-A-Roo’s Animal Sanctuary, was remembered fondly by the group as somebody who beloved and cared for animals.
‘He put blood, sweat and tears into Rock-A-Roos and it confirmed. Rock-A-Roos is what it’s at present due to him. He’s the spine of this enterprise in addition to the vice chairman,’ the group wrote in social media tribute.
‘His coronary heart and love for animals can’t be matched, however we are going to reside day-after-day in his honor doing precisely what he would need us to do, proceed this battle.’
They introduced the group can be accepting donations to Rock-A-Roos in Cutter’s honor via their Venmo: Rockaroosrescue.
Baird, who served as vice chairman of Rock-A-Roo’s Animal Sanctuary, was remembered fondly by the group as somebody who beloved and cared for animals
A memorial service for the fallen soldier will probably be held on Saturday, September 7, at 11:00 AM at Stacy-Wilkins Chapel in his hometown of Goldthwaite, Texas.
Fort Moor despatched their condolences to Baird’s household and mates.
‘We are able to affirm the Sept. 2, non-duty associated, loss of life of Pvt. Cutter Baird. The Maneuver Middle of Excellence and Fort Moore mourns his loss, and we prolong our condolences to his household, mates, and fellow Troopers of 2nd Battalion, 58th Infantry Regiment, 198th Infantry Brigade.’ Fort Moore introduced.
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