Kansas college student drowns after jumping into 'breathtaking' destination with deadly track record

A 21-year-old Wichita State University pupil drowned aft jumping into a fashionable Oregon swimming spread wherever authorities accidental the h2o is acold capable to origin contiguous carnal shock.

Kenny Truong, of Wichita, Kansas, was visiting Tamolitch Falls, which is commonly known arsenic Blue Pool, with friends Friday evening erstwhile helium jumped into the h2o and was incapable to get out, the Linn County Sheriff’s Office said.

Dispatchers received a 911 telephone astatine 8:47 p.m. connected June 26 reporting that a antheral had gone into the pool, located disconnected Highway 126, and was struggling.

"Witnesses picture him struggling arsenic helium swam toward shore, earlier submerging," Linn County Undersheriff Micah Smith said successful a release. "Despite the champion efforts of those astatine Tamolitch Falls who tried to assistance him, and the archetypal responders who arrived successful effect to the 911 call, Kenny did not survive."

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Kenny Truong, a 21-year-old Wichita State University pupil from Kansas, drowned aft jumping into the h2o astatine Tamolitch Falls, besides known arsenic Blue Pool, successful Oregon connected June 26, 2026. (GoFundMe)

The Linn County Sheriff’s Office, Lane County Sheriff’s Office and Upper McKenzie Rural Fire responded to the distant country Friday evening.

"Our thoughts are with the household and friends of Kenny Truong, 21, of Kansas, during what is an unimaginable time," Smith said.

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Truong was a concern large astatine the W. Frank Barton School of Business and a member-at-large of the Cummings Student Managed Investment Fund, Wichita State University confirmed to Fox News Digital.

The Linn County Sheriff’s Office said the h2o astatine Tamolitch Falls averages 37 degrees and tin origin contiguous carnal daze upon entry. (USDA Forest Service photograph by Breanne Schnell)

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Blue Pool, known for its striking turquoise h2o and cliffside views, is simply a large gully for hikers and visitors crossed the Pacific Northwest, but officials warned it tin beryllium deadly.

"It is besides a spot that has taken lives earlier and volition instrumentality lives again if visitors bash not recognize what they are facing," Smith said.

Authorities said the cliffs surrounding the excavation emergence betwixt 10 and 60 feet, portion the h2o averages conscionable 37 degrees. The country besides has minimal to nary cellphone service, and rescue efforts tin beryllium analyzable by the distant terrain.

"When thing goes incorrect astatine Blue Pool — oregon connected the way starring into the falls — it tin instrumentality up to respective hours from the infinitesimal of wounded to scope a hospital," the sheriff’s bureau said.

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Kenny Truong was a concern large successful Wichita State University’s W. Frank Barton School of Business and a member-at-large of the Cummings Student Managed Investment Fund. (Wichita State University)

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A GoFundMe organized by Carter Nguyen remembered Truong arsenic a profoundly loved person with "fire successful him" who pushed others to go "the brightest, best, fullest" versions of themselves.

"Kenny wasn’t conscionable my champion friend; helium was my brother," Nguyen wrote. "He had a mode of making everyone astir him consciousness seen, consciousness loved, and consciousness similar they were susceptible of much than they ever believed connected their own."

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"Every country helium walked into got a small brighter conscionable due to the fact that helium was successful it," Nguyen wrote. "That’s not thing you tin fake; that was conscionable Kenny."

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The sheriff’s bureau urged visitors to recognize the risks earlier entering the h2o astatine Tamolitch Falls, ticker retired for the radical they get with and telephone 911 instantly if idiosyncratic is successful distress. Officials said visitors with questions astir existent conditions should interaction the McKenzie River Ranger Station.

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