Yolanda George, mother of Christopher Gilbert, calls on police to make arrest after incident in Louisiana in April
The family of a 26-year-old Louisiana man who has brain damage after a friend allegedly pushed him into a lake despite him being unable to swim is calling on authorities to deliver them justice.
Christopher Gilbert’s family’s pleas came after he nearly drowned on 14 April while at a lakefront restaurant by Lake D’Arbonne in the northern Louisiana town of Farmerville.
Speaking to the local news station KSLA, Gilbert’s mother Yolanda George said: “A friend of his called. She was hysterical, crying on the phone. She told me that Chris had [fallen] into the lake, and he had been underwater for 20 minutes or so.”
George said her son – an aspiring medical doctor – was rescued and taken to a nearby hospital. She added: “The doctor called us in and told me that at that time, he was brain-dead, pretty much, and the rest of his organs were starting to fail, and that we had 72 hours on” life support, though Gilbert later regained consciousness and the ability to eat on his own.
Not every bad decision makes a person a psychopath. You’re diluting the meaning of that word.
Shoving a friend into a pool or a lake is pretty common young person behavior. Odds are she feels extremely guilty now. That doesn’t mean she shouldn’t face consequences for what she did, but there is no indication that she is a psychopath.
Teach your children to swim.
I agree that everyone should know how to swim. Unfortunately, it’s pretty common for those in poverty to never learn because they have fewer opportunities.
Odds or this person wasn’t from a background of poverty, considering that he was studying to be a doctor, but it is a common problem in the US.
Do you not have swimming lessons in school? I hated them, the teacher, the chlorine. I don’t like swimming, but if I needed to, I can. I mean, water makes up how much of the earth’s surface, seems strange to ignore.
Except for the part where the guy can’t swim, and she shoved him in the water regardless.
If she is not a psychopath, she is so stupid she is as dangerous as if she were. And how did it take 20 minutes to get help, if they were only playing?
So I’d say there are 2 indications that it’s likely she is a psychopath, obviously I can’t say for sure, but it smells of it.
You don’t know she knew he couldn’t swim, you don’t know what happened. Maybe they were both messing around pretending to shove and then it went too far.
Youngpeople do stupid things all the time, sometimes intentionally, and sometimes not.