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Elderly man found dead in pond
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Sequoyah County Sheriff Deputy Travis Gabbert was called to a residence seven miles northeast of Sallisaw in the Akins community on a possible drowning.
Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) Trooper Rodney Copeland, with the lake division, reported that Shirley Coatney discovered her husband, Aubery Fred Coatney, missing from inside their home shortly after breakfast.
According to the report, Mrs. Coatney went to look for him and found him in a farm pond submerged in the water near their home.
When Gabbert arrived he pulled Coatney out of the water and an ambulance and the medical examiner were called.
Other media reported that Sequoyah County Sheriff’s Department said the cause of the death appears to be drowning. In the media article it stated that an official with the Sequoyah County Sheriff’s Department said the investigators learned that the man had talked about committing suicide but it was never brought to the attention of the sheriff’s department.
Copeland said the incident is still under investigation.
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