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Aspiring doctor brain dead after friends pushed him into lake knowing he can’t swim
NY Post ^ | May 4, 2024 | Katherine Donlevy

Posted on 05/05/2024 11:25:31 AM PDT by xxqqzz

An aspiring medical student was left brain dead last month when his friends pushed him into a Louisiana lake knowing he couldn’t swim — and then looked on while doing nothing to save the drowning man, according to a report.

Shocking video shows the group casually peering into the water moments after they shoved Christopher Gilbert off the dock at Lake D’Arbonne in Farmerville on April 14.

At least one woman can be seen slowly entering the water before abandoning the rescue mission.

It was another 10 minutes before a patron at a nearby restaurant intervened and yanked Gilbert back to land — just in the nick of time.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Louisiana; US: New York
KEYWORDS: christophergilbert; farmerville; katherinedonlevy; lake; lakedarbonne; louisiana; manslaughter; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkpost
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To: xxqqzz

His friends probably did not know how to swim.


41 posted on 05/05/2024 2:59:58 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: xxqqzz

15-to-life with no parole...


42 posted on 05/05/2024 3:20:27 PM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: xxqqzz

Doesn’t seem something this heinous could happen in Farmerville


43 posted on 05/05/2024 3:22:01 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: xxqqzz

Your future care providers care very very little.


44 posted on 05/05/2024 3:24:51 PM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with.)
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To: xxqqzz

The Talmud obligates parents with teaching their children how to swim.


45 posted on 05/05/2024 3:34:17 PM PDT by yldstrk ( )
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To: Eagles6

Your dad sounds like a total jerk.


46 posted on 05/05/2024 3:37:06 PM PDT by yldstrk ( )
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To: yldstrk
It's an old joke, dude.🤨

Sorry that it went over your head.

47 posted on 05/05/2024 3:42:31 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: TigerClaws

A few years ago my son did jump in for a friend. They found him underwater and pulled him out and he began cpr but it was unsuccessful.


48 posted on 05/05/2024 4:37:37 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: odawg; gundog

He is no longer brain dead, has been taken off life support, and is supposed to be getting better.


Maybe she was trying to turn him into a newt.


49 posted on 05/05/2024 4:42:42 PM PDT by Hieronymus ( )
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To: odawg

How do you come back from brain-dead?

Seems he was misdiagnosed?


50 posted on 05/05/2024 4:50:46 PM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: Hieronymus

Or just introduce him to some.


51 posted on 05/05/2024 4:53:25 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: gundog

At least it seems clear that he is not a witch.


52 posted on 05/05/2024 4:56:30 PM PDT by Hieronymus ( )
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To: hellinahandcart

“How do you come back from brain-dead?”

I don’t know if he was brain dead, but he was extremely bad off, close to death, about as close as one can and still be alive. Haven’t followed it that closely, just can not get over that he was in the water and his friends just watched him drown and did not get him out.


53 posted on 05/05/2024 4:58:45 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Eagles6

Oh sorry, I am a female. It did go over my head.


54 posted on 05/05/2024 5:16:45 PM PDT by yldstrk ( )
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To: xxqqzz
He is called an aspiring doctor. He has a masters in something medically related, but hasn't been accepted into medical school.

Do you not know how to read? He is an aspiring "MEDICAL STUDENT", not a doctor

Do yourself a favor and look up the term "Aspire" before you further reveal yourself to be a frickin idiot........Sheesh!

55 posted on 05/05/2024 5:23:40 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Uncle Boozie was eaten by cannibals....)
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To: yldstrk

😜 No problem.
My Dad did teach us kids all to swim, very early, though, in a pool, no burlap sacks or canoes involved.🤣


56 posted on 05/05/2024 5:31:25 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: odawg
There is usually more to the story, which is why I don't comment on a single story of an event.

Rescuing someone from drowning is very dangerous, even if they could swim.

We don't know that they knew he couldn't swim.

We don't know the real timeline.

Did his friends just sit on the dock for 10 minutes or did they call for help and the others searched, found and rescued him after 10 minutes?

You don't come back from "brain dead" and 10 minutes without O2 should be fatal, though very cold water can mitigate this.

I'll wait for other stories before making a judgement.

57 posted on 05/05/2024 5:45:30 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: xxqqzz
The story says one girl admitted pushing him, in horseplay.

Why does the article say they all pushed him in?

Why does the article describe the girl as "white".

The Post is, usually, above this kind of inflammatory "journalism".

It appears that not everyone has learned a lesson about "journalism", in today's world.

Remember Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Ahmed Aubery and George Floyd?

58 posted on 05/05/2024 6:00:02 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Eagles6

We don’t know that they knew he couldn’t swim.

Yes, they did know that he could not swim.

“We don’t know the real timeline.”

He was in the water for about twenty minutes and under water for five to ten minutes.

“Did his friends just sit on the dock for 10 minutes or did they call for help and the others searched, found and rescued him after 10 minutes?”

We know that his friends did nothing for about twenty minutes. He was rescued by someone coming out of a restaurant.

“You don’t come back from “brain dead” and 10 minutes without O2 should be fatal, though very cold water can mitigate this.”

Have seen only one paper that said he was brain dead. He certainly had brain damage initially.


59 posted on 05/05/2024 6:03:25 PM PDT by odawg
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To: odawg
Did you read other articles about this, because none of these "facts" are in this story?

As I said, I never make a judgement on one story.

60 posted on 05/05/2024 6:30:09 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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