A teenager who was found dead on Sunday afternoon after a pleasure boat carrying him and five other people capsized a day earlier off the coast of Sonoma County was a high school football player and victim of a 2017 mass shooting in Rancho Tehama.

A search team found the body of Johnny Phommathep II, 17, of Corning, in the waters near Bodega Bay around noon Sunday, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office.

Phommathep was one of six people aboard a 21-foot Bayliner pleasure boat that took off around 3 p.m. Saturday from the Westside Regional Park boat launch in Bodega Bay.

Saturday was the first day of recreational Dungeness crab season and the group, which included five family members and a family friend, was going crabbing.

The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office identified Phommathep Monday night but did not confirm the relationship between the family members.

A GoFundMe memorial fundraiser beginning for Phommathep’s family, however, identifies three of the victims as a father and two sons.

Just after 10 p.m. Saturday, a person connected to the group called authorities to report that the boat, which was due to return around 7 p.m., was missing. Deputies on the coast called the cell phone of one of the boaters and he returned about 7 miles from Carmet Beach.

Authorities from multiple agencies, including the Sheriff’s Office, Coast Guard and California Air National Guard, searched the area Saturday night and all day Sunday. Authorities located Phommathep’s body and found an 11-year-old boy alive.

The 11-year-old boy somehow made his way onto Highway 1 Sunday morning where a driver found him. He was taken to a local hospital.

The other four people on the boat are still missing, although the search has since been called off. Two of them are believed to be Phommathep’s father, a military veteran and volunteer firefighter, and a brother, according to GoFundMe.

The person who created the GoFundMe identified herself as a school secretary at Rancho Tehama Elementary and a family friend.

“I’m raising money to help Tiffany, a loving wife and mother, put her husband and 2 sons to rest after a tragic boating accident on November 2nd in Bodega Bay,” the description reads fundraising. “I’m also trying to raise funds to help Tiffany support her newborns and survivors.”

Phommathep was a linebacker on the Corning High School football team, the team list shows. He was also shot twice in the calf during a 2017 mass shooting that killed five people in Rancho Tehama. according to the Los Angeles Times.

His mother, Tiffany, was driving him and two of his siblings to school on the morning of Nov. 14, 2017, when the shooter, Kevin Janson Neal, drove up from behind, hit their pickup truck, and approached the driver as he fired. . a gun.

Phommathep’s mother, Tiffany Phommathep, was shot in the torso and four times in the back of the left shoulder. One bullet missed his heart at close range, while the other lodged in his gut.

Tiffany Phommathep used her body to shield Johnny Phommathep II, who was in the front seat. Her 6-year-old son was shot in the leg and her 2-year-old son was cut by glass.

The boat carrying Johnny Phommathep II in Sonoma County on Saturday was one of two who drowned from Saturday.

On Sunday, a hiker witnessed a boat carrying two men capsize near Mussel Point. A man was found unresponsive and pronounced dead after firefighters attempted life-saving measures.

The second man has not yet been found.

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