Updated 4/27/20

Officials have identified a Mt. Juliet man who drowned trying to save dog on Richland Creek in Giles County.
Matthew Brannon, 32, drowned below a low head dam on Richland Creek  Friday evening, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.
TWRA officers were called to an area on Richland Creek  where Brannon and a female paddler had encountered a low head dam.
The female paddler was able to get to shore and portage around the dam. Brannon, who went over the dam, was thrown out by the water flow below the dam.
Brannon made it to shore and put on a life jacket to try and save a dog he had been traveling with. In his effort to rescue the dog, Brannon was pulled into the turbulent water below the dam and drowned.
TWRA officers deployed boats and were able to recover his body.
It was the second kayak drowning in Giles County the last few months.  
There have been nine boating fatalities in Tennessee so far this year.