Country music singer Craig Strickland has been found dead, according to Lt. Kera Phillippi with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. Strickland went missing last month while on a duck hunting trip in Oklahoma.
The body of his friend Chase Morland had previously been found at a lake in northern Oklahoma. Strickland, a 29-year-old vocalist in the country rock band Backroad Anthem, and Morland, 22, were duck hunting at Oklahoma’s Kaw Lake on Sunday as a fierce winter weather system was hitting central portions of the country, the band said.
After relatives reported them missing, state troopers said they found Morland’s body Monday morning at the lake, where the friends’ boat purportedly overturned.
The weather at the time of the trip was perilous — rain, sleet and snow pelted the area, with wind gusts of up to 45 mph and wind chills as low as 15 degrees Fahrenheit — and Morland acknowledged the danger in what is, in retrospect, a haunting tweet Saturday night.
“In case we don’t come back, @BackroadCRAIG and I are going right through Winter Storm Goliath to kill ducks in Oklahoma. #IntoTheStorm,” Morland’s tweet reads.
Police said nothing about what caused Morland’s death. They added that there were “no personal flotation devices in use.”