Jaspreet Singh Turna was one of the good ones. His friend, Taylor Smith, spoke of him fondly.
"He was he was just so welcoming, right when he met you," Smith said. "He had a way of making you feel comfortable and part of the group."
Jaspreet's sister, Amandeep, said he was was her whole world. "He embodied intelligence, kind-heartedness, generosity, sweetness, beauty, genuineness, and love. It was impossible not to smile when you saw him. He touched so many people’s lives," she said. Jaspreet is of three men who drowned on the Spokane River last week, none of them were wearing life jackets.
"I'm going on thirty years in the fire service. Twenty of those is a fire chief. I have never, ever taken somebody out of a life jacket that died as a result of drowning. It simply doesn't happen in my experience," Spokane Fire Chief Brian Schaeffer said.