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Coroner: Texas Oil Company Exec. Fell, Hit Forehead, Drowned
A coroner says a Texas energy company executive who disappeared after leaving a bar in New Orleans’ French Quarter hit his forehead and his fell from a steamship dock and drowned in the Mississippi River.
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NEW ORLEANS (March 10, 2010)--The New Orleans coroner says Houston energy executive Douglas Schantz evidently hit his head as he fell from a steamship dock and drowned in the Mississippi River.
Dr. Frank Minyard said Wednesday the autopsy performed on the 54-year-old Houston man revealed a lesion on Schantz’s forehead as well as evidence of drowning.
Minyard says he expects results of blood tests in two to three weeks, which will show how much Schantz drank before leaving a Bourbon Street bar about 2 a.m. Friday.
From the bar, Schantz wandered over to the Steamboat Natchez dock, climbed over a guardrail and fell from a slender ledge while walking toward the gangplank.
Schantz, the president of Sequent Energy Management, went to New Orleans to give Tulane University's Energy Institute $25,000 on behalf of the company.
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Sounds like a sad situation.
What a sad ending to someone's life. Pray for his family.
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