Texas friends are charged after woman drowns in lake during drunken Fourth of July boat day

By Nic White For Dailymail.Com 19:58 05 Jul 2024, updated 23:38 05 Jul 2024

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A young woman drowned and two men were arrested after she fell into a lake during Fourth of July celebrations.

Shane Everett Anniboli, 44, was charged with boating while intoxicated after police found the body in the waters of Lake Conroe, north of Houston.

He was on a pontoon boat with the woman and her husband when she fell overboard about 9pm and never resurfaced.

Initial reports from the scene identified Anniboli as the drowned woman's husband, but this was later corrected to be another man on the boat who was not charged.

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Shane Everett Anniboli, 44, was boating on Lake Conroe, north of Houston, on Thursday when a woman on his boat fell overboard and drowned

Anniboli was charged with boating while intoxicated after police found the woman's body

Anniboli, another woman, and Kyle Dean MacMeekin, the driver of another boat alongside them, all jumped in to save her.

They couldn't find her in the water and darkness, and soon lost sight of the other woman who also dived in to help.

Montgomery County marine police arrived and pulled MacMeekin, 29, and Anniboli from the water and continued the search.

Police used side-scan sonar to search the lake and found the other woman safe on a dock an hour later after she swam about three-quarters of a mile.

Kyle Dean MacMeekin, 29, (pictured with his girlfriend Aubrie Kurlin) dived in along with Anniboli another woman to save their drowning friend

MacMeekin was charged with boating while intoxicated and is being held without bail

Divers with North Montgomery County Fire Department later recovered the missing woman's body about 11pm.

Game wardens with the Texas Parks and Wildlife began interviewing witnesses and arrested Anniboli and MacMeekin.

They were both charged with boating while intoxicated are being held without bail at the Montgomery County Jail.

Anniboli ran Funky Flamingo Shaved Ice in Magnolia, Texas, where he still lives, from 2016 after starting it with his ex-wife Mary, until it closed about two years ago.

One of the boats believed to be involved in the drowning after it was towed to the dock

Game wardens with the Texas Parks and Wildlife began interviewing witnesses and arrested Anniboli

He is now a business development specialist at Dahill and formerly also ran Turfco Landscape Management.

MacMeekin is a former college football star at the University of Central Florida, and now a project manager at SRG Roofing in Spring, Texas.

Justice of the Peace Wayne Mack ordered an inquest and had the woman's body sent for an autopsy. Her name has not yet been released.