3 Baton Rouge men killed in boating accident

NEW ROADS — State and parish authorities today are searching for the bodies of three Baton Rouge men in a boating accident late Saturday on False River.

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries officials said Sterling Forbes, 22, Christopher W. Austin, 20, and Brian Doherty, 21, were killed in the collision.

A fourth man in the boat with the men, Brian Lummen, 21, also of Baton Rouge, survived, said Col. Winton Vidrine of the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

Four people in the second boat, Jerry Jordan, 53, and his wife, Brenda, 50, of Lafayette, and Tommy Doucet, 52 and his wife, Marlene, 52 of Oakdale, also survived, authorities said.

Tommy Doucet was critically injured in the accident and taken to Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, said Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff’s Capt. Steve Juge.Family members of the victims were on the scene.

This article was written by Steve Ward, an Advocate Staff Writer
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