Sawyer Man Drowns Trying To Retrieve Deer

The body of a Sawyer man was recovered on Saturday after he drowned in Choctaw County.

Troopers say the body of 51-year-old Stephen Newton was recovered in approximately 10 feet of water, 80 feet off the bank in the Kiamichi River, 5 miles southwest of Fort Towson .

Newton and his daughter were hunting Friday afternoon when she shot a deer with her hunting bow.

The deer ran into the Kiamichi River, and Newton went to retrieve it, but he never resurfaced, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said.

The search for Newton's body was called off at sunset on Friday and resumed Saturday morning.

The Choctaw County Sheriff's Department and the Fort Towson Fire Department also assisted OHP with recovery efforts.