Missing boater found, dead, on Wallace Lake
Jack Cobb, 33, had been missing since Friday.
Missing boater found, dead, on Wallace Lake Jack Cobb, 33, had been missing since Friday. Check out this story on shreveporttimes.com: https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2018/03/02/body-recovered-friday-morning-wallace-lake/388973002/
Nick Wooten, Shreveport Times Published 10:29 a.m. CT March 2, 2018 | Updated 6:11 p.m. CT March 2, 2018
Jack Cobb, 33 of Shreveport, went missing Friday Nick Wooten/The Times
Jack Cobb, 33 of Shreveport, with his girlfriend Melissa McComas. Cobb has been missing since Friday afternoon.(Photo: Nick Wooten/ The Times)Buy Photo
The body of 33-year-old Jack Cobb was recovered from Wallace Lake Friday morning, said Sgt. Chad Davis with the Caddo Sheriff's Office Marine Unit, and family has been notified.
Deputies with the sheriff's marine unit and agents with Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries found Cobb around 8:30 a.m.
Cobb left his home in the Cypress Gardens Mobile Home Park around 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 23, and set course in a boat for an island in Wallace Lake to retrieve a shooting target, his girlfriend Melissa McComas, 34, told The Times earlier this week.
McComas reported him missing around 9 p.m. that night when he didn't return. Boaters found an overturned vessel and backpack about 200 yards from Cobb's home.
Cobb used to work in the oil fields, but recently took a job as a cook at The Port Grill, McComas said. The couple dated for four years.
"He was a very likable person," she said. "Everybody that met him, he was a friend. He didn't argue with anybody. He just gave you whatever you wanted. Kids loved him. Whatever you bring him, he can fix it."
Deputies and agents searched the lake every day since Cobb was reported missing and his boat was found overturned.
McComas said Friday she is sad that Cobb is gone, but is relieved that his body was found.
"I'm mad at myself because I feel like I let him go out there," she said. "He was doing what he wanted to do."
The last conversation the couple had was about Cobb bringing their dog, Lucy, with him on the boat, McComas said. It was the maiden voyage of Cobb's pirogue.
"The last thing word I heard him say was 'haha' when he came on the radio," she said.
More: Girlfriend holds out hope that missing Wallace Lake boater is found
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