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Searched for depressed man
By Kevin
Walker
Fridays are
typically hectic at Arrow Printing, and this was
not unlike any other. The sheriff called with
news of a missing man from Lake Elsinore. After
making my calls to fellow members, I picked up
the No. 1 van and proceeded to the Elsinore
station. Surprisingly, I was the first RMRU
member there. I started gathering information and
learned that David Carver, age 23, had left his
home on Wednesday in a depressed state. On
Thursday David's parents called the sheriff and
reported him missing. Two deputies went out and
talked to the parents, and then after speaking
with the parents, went out and started following
a set of foot prints along with the prints of a
dog, which belonged to David. They did an
excellent job and followed the prints up into the
foothills above the South end of the lake.
As I was being told of what had transpired Rick
Pohlers arrived. We also learned that David took
a 22 caliber pistol and a bottle of Vodka with
him. Needless to say the situation did not look
good. We drove to a roadhead near where the
deputies lost the prints. There they showed us
how and where they had followed David's tracks.
After that we went back to the vans and loaded
our packs up. As we were doing so, Rob Gardner
and Bruce Gahagan arrived. just as we were
preparing to start hiking a couple walked by and
asked what we were doing. After telling them we
were searching for a missing man, they said they
had seen a man and a dog sitting on a small ridge
just up a dirt road from where they were the day
before. The sheriff drove the couple up the road
to where the person was last seen. Soon the sad
news came back, that the body of David Carter had
been located. We put the wheel on the litter,
pulled out a body bag and walked up the road,
down and across a small ravine and then up to
where the body was. There we found the sheriff's
personnel, the apparent suicide victim of a
shotgun blast to the head, and a very confused
Shepherd pup. Not much else needs to be said. Joe
Erickson arrived soon behind us and then the
coroner. After the needed info was gathered, the
body was placed in the bag and we wheeled the
litter back to base.
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