Grenada Man Drowned In Tillatoba Lake
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Members of the Yalobusha County dive team and Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks conservation officers searched for a little over an hour before locating the body of a man who drowned Sunday afternoon at Tillatoba Lake. – Photo by John Beshears
TILLATOBA – A fishing outing at Tillatoba Lake turned tragic for a Grenada County man Sunday afternoon. Yalobusha County Coroner Ronnie Stark reported Kalawinski Shaw, 38, drowned after his boat capsized. Shaw was at the lake fishing with friends.
Multiple agencies responded to the scene after receiving the call at 1:54 p.m. Yalobusha EMA director Stewart Spence and deputy director Jarrad Logan; members of the Yalobusha County Dive and Rescue team including Kyle Cummings, Kyle Spence and Brady Dickey; Yalobusha County deputies; and officers with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks assisted with the recovery effort.
Underwater sonar utilized by conservation officers and EMA deputy director Logan helped pinpoint the general location of the body. Spence and Dickey spent almost an hour in the water before recovering the body in approximately seven feet of water at 5:21 p.m. Deputy Coroner Debbie Jackson was on the scene and pronounced Shaw dead shortly after the recovery.
“We use the sonar to try and mark the target,” Spence explained. “From there we keep narrowing the search area. The divers usually go down free-handed, if we don’t locate it fairly quick we go to a grid pattern search.”
Spence said they were preparing to shift to a grid pattern when the body was discovered.
Tillatoba Lake is approximately 40 acres and is located in the Holly Springs National Forest between Coffeeville and Tillatoba.
