Asheville Citizen-Times
By Sabian Warren:
HOT SPRINGS – A woman drowned Monday in the French Broad River after falling out of an inner tube.
Delores Johnson, 45, of Hot Springs, had started out tubing with a male friend in Spring Creek, which flows through Hot Springs before emptying into the French Broad, Madison County Sheriff’s Office chief deputy Michael Garrison said. …
Johnson could not swim and was not wearing a life jacket, he said. … Johnson, a Madison County native who was developmentally disabled, was well-known in Hot Springs, he said.
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