Man killed in freak accident on North Carolina beach, wife says
Shannon Dingle tweeted about Lee Dingle's death, saying "my partner, my love, and my home died today after a freak accident."
OAK ISLAND, N.C. (AP) — A woman says her husband was killed on the North Carolina coast when a wave crashed into him, slamming his head into the sand and breaking his neck.
Shannon Dingle tweeted about Lee Dingle’s death, saying “my partner, my love, and my home died today after a freak accident.”
She said her husband was playing in the water Thursday with several of their six children when he was hit by the intense wave.
Some heroes – including our kids – tried to save him, but it wouldn’t have mattered what they did. His body couldn’t recover from the initial injury.
— Shannon Dingle, M.A.Ed. (@ShannonDingle) July 20, 2019
Details to come about all the things. Please pray for us. And feel free cuss and smash stuff because God knows I’ll be doing some of that. (And breathing and hydrating and eating and all those self care things because I am worth it and because I have 6 little people to parent.)
— Shannon Dingle, M.A.Ed. (@ShannonDingle) July 20, 2019
Oak Island Fire Chief Chris Anselmo said rescuers took him to the New Hanover Regional Medical Center, where he died.
Dingle is a writer whose work focuses on surviving sexual assault and parenting. A GoFundMe for the Raleigh family raised nearly $140,000 as of Monday.
https://twitter.com/ShannonDingle/status/1152379049295134720
