![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They attended elementary school together in Braintree, Vt. Zachary and Angela Allard tied the knot on July 14 in what she referred to as the perfect wedding in Brookfield, Vt. The results of that weren’t immediately available. The state medical examiner is conducting an autopsy. When he arrived, Albright said, he could see that the water was “awfully shallow” where Allard jumped. He presumed the lack of rain has lead to lower-than-normal water levels. He said there is a large culvert under the road that empties out into the brook and creates a “pool” there. In an interview this week, Albright said he couldn’t pinpoint why the water was shallower than normal in that area. Geological Survey show that the water flow in Ayers Brook in Randolph, to which the Adams Brook contributes, was less than a third of what it was earlier that week, police said. Family members pulled an unresponsive Allard from the water and tried to resuscitate him on the shore until first responders arrived.Īllard was pronounced dead on the scene, according to Vermont State Police.Īngela Allard said she wasn’t sure if her husband had been to that swimming spot before, but Ashley Allard said the location is a place residents frequent. Shortly after arriving, Allard dove from a rocky outcrop into what police said was “extremely shallow” water. “He cared a lot about his family and loved spending a lot of time with his nieces and nephews,” Ashley Allard said of her brother.Īllard had finished mowing the lawn on Friday evening and decided he would take his two stepdaughters, Jordan and Cameron, to a swimming hole next to a culvert that allows Adams Brook to run beneath Route 66. “He was always the jokester in the room,” Angela Allard said in a telephone interview. Zachary Allard, a 2008 Randolph High School graduate, was remembered on Tuesday by his wife, Angela, and sister, Ashley, as a family man and a jack-of-all-trades. Randolph - A 28-year-old Randolph man who died over the weekend when he dove into unexpectedly shallow water at a swimming hole off Route 66 had gotten married just six days before the accident. ![]()
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