Saved From Harvey’s Floodwaters, Twice. So How Did She End Up Dead?
He added, “I didn’t see nobody go get her.”
Mr. Clark said the person in the water floated one direction, accompanied by the garbage bags, while the
others propped the boat against a truck to drain it, then climbed back in and headed the opposite way.
“I was concerned that she wouldn’t set up in a chair too well,” Mr. Lincoln said, “so we got them to say they would be extra watchful of her.”
He snapped a photo of her, still wearing the black turban-style head covering she had left home in, with a cozy brown blanket draped over her.
So Mr. Ellis didn’t stop to ask exactly who the men in the boat were — he just helped his mother aboard.
“I’m not thinking to myself, ‘Oh, she’s drowning,’ because she didn’t look like she was drowning,” Mr. Clark said.
Two of them, identified in news reports as Ricky Berrigan
and Donnie Davenport, jumped out while a third, Joshua Lincoln, stayed with the boat, Mr. Lincoln said.