Shreveport: Search suspended for man missing after empty canoe found on bayou

  • Source: KTAL-TV NBC 6 Shreveport
  • Published: 01/06/2021 12:41 PM

Shreveport police have suspended their search for a missing man that possibly drowned in a bayou off the Red River after an empty canoe was found Wednesday morning. According to the Shreveport Fire Department, they received a call about a possible drowning shortly before 12:30 p.m. Wednesday near the Coates Bluff Nature Trail in the Anderson Island neighborhood. SFD says around 11 p.m. Tuesday a man went out on his canoe but never returned. Firefighters found his canoe overturned with some of his belongings around it. Divers and dogs are still searching the area.



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