At 9:10 a.m. Monday, the body of a 47-year-old local male was recovered from Lake Brownwood, the second drowning victim at the reservoir in the month of June.

Brad Reeves, Texas Parks and Wildlife Game Warden for Brown County, confirmed the information to BrownwoodNews.com Monday morning. Reeves then on Tuesday morning confirmed the identity of the drowning victim as Nicholas Contreras Torres, 47, of Brownwood.

“Sunday we ran a lot of site scans and were able to get a pretty good image in about 42 feet of water,” Reeves said. “We weren’t 100 percent sure so we sent it to the Texas Parks and Wildlife dive team experts. They looked at it and decided they were coming out first thing this morning. They have a torpedo camera they run across the bottom and they went to our GPS coordinate mark and found the victim. They suited up their divers and went down and were able to recover the victim.”

The initial call was received shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday of a possible drowning at Lake Brownwood. 

Reeves said, “They left the Wild Duck, they were idling along, and there were some females on the boat that had to use the restroom. They turned the boat off and the girls got into the water. (Torres) didn’t know how to swim and wasn’t wearing a life jacket, but he was sitting at the back right corner of the boat and got up and got on a step down on the back part of the boat. He got on it, and nobody knows why, but he jumped. They said it looked like he stood up there and intentionally knew what he was doing and jumped. When he went into the water he went straight down and never resurfaced or circled or anything. He was in the water and disappeared.”

The search efforts were focused between the Kirkland Docks and McCartney Island.

Reeves added, “The Brown County Water Improvement District Lake Patrol is a huge asset for the lake, those guys are outstanding. We have a good partnership there, them working with us back and forth. Chief Marcus Lively and Kaleb Hopson and Jeffrey Pospisil, the two lake patrol officers, we had a really good team put together.”

On June 9, 26-year-old Tyler Massey of Brownwood drown near Flat Rock Park.