Barack Obama reacts to personal chef Tafari Campbell’s dead near Martha’s Vineyard estate
us.hola.comBarack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama are mourning the loss of a staff member they considered “a truly wonderful man.” Tafari Campbell, who worked as a White House sous chef and later became the Obamas‘ chef, died on Monday, July 24, in a paddle boarding accident near the Obamas’ Katama estate in Martha’s Vineyard.
He was 45.The search started at 7:46 p.m. ET on Sunday when Martha’s Vineyard police and fire agencies responded to a 911 call for “a male paddle boarder who had gone into the water, appeared to briefly struggle to stay on the surface, and then submerged and did not resurface.”A post shared by Tafari Campbell (@thymeless_creations)Massachusetts State Police confirmed Campbell’s death to PEOPLE during a news release.
According to the document, divers from Dumfries, Virginia, recovered Campbell from a pond on Edgartown Great Road shortly before 10 a.m.
ET. “MSP Underwater Recovery Unit divers made a recovery after the victim’s body was located by Massachusetts Environmental Police Officers deploying side-scan sonar from a boat,” the department said in the release.
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