Aspiring Doctor Left Braid-Dead After Friends Pushed Him Into A Lake Knowing He Can't Swim!

"Aspiring doctor brain dead after friends pushed him into lake knowing he can’t swim: report


An aspiring medical student was left brain-dead last month when his friends pushed him into a Louisiana lake knowing he couldn’t swim — and then looked on while doing nothing to save the drowning man, according to a report.

Shocking video shows the group casually peering into the water moments after they shoved Christopher Gilbert off the dock at Lake D’Arbonne in Farmerville on April 14.

At least one woman can be seen slowly entering the water before abandoning the rescue mission.

It was another 10 minutes before a patron at a nearby restaurant intervened and yanked Gilbert back to land — just in the nick of time. Christopher Gilbert was hospitalized after being submerged underwater when a group of people allegedly pushed him off a dock into a lake on April 14.KNOE 8

The 26-year-old was brain-dead and the rest of his organs were starting to fail by the time he arrived at a local hospital, his mother, Yolanda George, told KSLA.

He spent 72 hours on a ventilator and an ECMO machine, which George described as “dialysis for the lungs.”

“I was devastated. I felt like my life had ended in that moment. My son is aspiring to be a medical doctor, my son is going to be a medical doctor. He got his master’s last year in biological science. He’s preparing for medical school, so for this to have happened to him … I was just devastated,” George said.

According to police, his so-called friends initially tried to pass off the near-death as “horseplay.”" - NYPost |