New Orleans man apparently dies by drowning while fishing in St. Bernard Parish waters

A 64-year-old New Orleans man apparently died by drowning while fishing in St. Bernard Parish waters Sunday morning, Sheriff James Pohlmann said.

David LeBlanc Jr. died after falling into the water from a platform in the Mississippi River – Gulf Outlet while apparently trying to tie up the boat he was in, the sheriff said.

The incident happened east of the flood wall in the MR – GO just before 10 a.m.

LeBlanc’s body was recovered from the water but he was dead on arrival at St. Bernard Parish Hospital.

Neither he nor a man in the boat with LeBlanc were wearing
personal flotation devices, the sheriff said.