Former WWE wrestler Shad Gaspard was found dead after he went missing while swimming with his son at Venice Beach on May 17, 2020.
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Gaspard, 39, and his son, 10, were among a group of swimmers caught in a strong rip current in the Venice Beach neighborhood of Los Angeles.
He told lifeguards to save his son before saving him but disappeared underwater soon after.
A person at the beach found the body along the shoreline around 1:25 a.m.
An investigator with the coroner’s office confirmed the body was Gaspard’s, and the wrestler’s family has been notified, police said.
He was about 50 yards offshore when a lifeguard saw that a “wave had crashed over Mr. Shad Gaspard and he was swept out to sea,” the Los Angeles Police Department said.
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Chief Ken Haskett, with the fire department’s Lifeguard Section, said that the lifeguard tried to pull Gaspard and his son to safety.
“He was going to try to rescue both,” he said. “But the father, in his last few words, said, ‘Save my son.’ ”
Gaspard pushed his son to the lifeguard, before “he got pushed back down under a wave, and that’s the last he’s been seen,” Haskett said.
The wrestler was part of the WWE team Cryme Tyme and, since he stopped wrestling, he has pursued an acting career.
He appeared in the movies “Get Hard” and “Think Like A Man Too,” and the television shows “Big Time Rush” and “Key and Peele,” among others.
Did Shad Gaspard Son Survive?
Gaspard’s son was found and did not require treatment at a hospital. Gaspard gave his own life to save his 10-year-old son.
What Were Shad Gaspard Last Words?
Gaspard’s last words were “just secure my son, rescue my son.”
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