High school basketball coach dead, 8-year-old daughter missing after Christmas Eve tragedy
An Oklahoma basketball coach and father of four was found dead, and his 8-year-old daughter remains missing after the family’s car was swept away by raging floodwaters in Texas on Christmas Eve. Will Robinson, a high school coach from Durant, Oklahoma, and his family were reportedly driving in their SUV on Tuesday morning when the vehicle left the roadway, got caught in a drainage ditch in Sherman, Texas, and was carried away by strong currents, CBS News reported. All six family members were trapped inside, according to the Sherman Police Department.Robinson did not survive, while four other family members were rescued.
The family’s 8-year-old daughter has not been found.“We are still unsuccessful in our efforts to locate the 8-year-old girl,” Lieutenant Samuel Boyle of the Sherman Police Department told Fox News Digital.“We have identified a 15-mile stretch of creek downstream from where the vehicle stopped, and we have targeted that with the multi-jurisdictional task force.” Sherman police have not yet confirmed the identity of Robinson or his family, Boyle told Fox News Digital. The search for the young girl, which authorities said had already covered seven miles of creek as of Wednesday, continues into its third day, as Texas Gov.
Greg Abbott approved state search and rescue teams to assist in finding the child. “We are shifting our focus into the county, targeting some possible locations where we have not looked to as yet,” the Sherman Police Department said in a statement on Wednesday afternoon, adding, “Our search will continue until dark today, then we will resume searching again before daylight.”The cause of Tuesday’s accident was “a combination of a heavy downpour and accumulating of groundwater,” Boyle told Fox News Digital.“Somehow that caused the vehicle to leave the roadway and enter a drainage ditch… and the vehicle got caught in the flooding in the drainage ditch.”“It’s a tragedy, it really is,” the l...