“That’s the last I heard from him,” Larry Tucker said of his 46-year-old son.
David Tucker’s vehicle, a silver 2005 Toyota Tundra, was found stuck in South Bosque Creek. Tucker was not in the truck and Moody police have no clues as to where he might be.
The storm system that swept through Central Texas the night David Tucker disappeared dropped several inches of rain and flooded low-lying areas. The storm also packed large hail and 80- to 90-mph winds.
“When he called at 8:15, it was already raining hard,” Larry Tucker said Wednesday.
“I’m just so worried,” the elder Tucker said. “I don’t know what’s happened to him or where he is. They found his truck in the creek, but we don’t know where he is. It’s hard when it’s your child. He’s my son. I want to know what’s happened to him.”
The place where David Tucker’s Toyota was found was near a low-water crossing that was covered with rushing water.
“That low-water bridge,” Larry Tucker said, “he had to cross it to get home. He may have driven off into the water not realizing how deep it was.”
David Tucker, a divorced father of two daughters ages 10 and 17, works as a meat-cutter at the Woodway H-E-B near Waco. He did not show up to work on May 3 the day. The manager of the store had no comment Wednesday about Tucker’s disappearance.
Moody Police Chief James Raabe said there was no evidence that Tucker had walked away from his vehicle, but that there had been a lot of rain since that night and that South Bosque Creek had risen and fallen several times since then.
“When we found his truck and we determined he wasn’t in it, but we aren’t going to move it out yet,” Raabe said Wednesday afternoon. “Just getting out there to it is nearly impossible at this time.”
In the meantime, Larry Tucker continues to wonder what might have happened May 2.
“I’m just waiting to hear from someone who can tell me what’s happened to my son. It’s terrible ... just waiting and not knowing. He’s my son.”
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