A Florida sheriff blasted beach-goers for disregarding the warnings about dangerous water conditions just days before former NFL quarterback Ryan Mallett’s drowning.
Mallett was vacationing at a Destin, Fla. beach when the tragedy occurred. According to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office, first responders were called to Panama City Beach on Tuesday around 2:12 p.m. while a group of people swimming in the Gulf of Mexico near a sandbar struggled to make their way back to shore.
One of the individuals, later identified as Mallett, was not breathing when he was pulled to shore, and he was pronounced dead at local hospital a short time later.
