Search for singer Craig Strickland to resume

Craig Strickland, 29, embarked on a duck hunting trip with Morland and the dog in northern Oklahoma on Sunday, heading into treacherous weather. As of now, his body has not been found, although his friend, Chase Marland, has already turned up dead. According to a statement from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Morland’s body was recovered in a lake where their boat capsized.

She later tweeted, “For everyone wanting to know, Sam is fine. He wouldn’t leave Chase’s body until the Warden found him”.

Kay County sheriff’s office contacted the Oklahoma Highway Patrol at about 9 p.m. Sunday after they learned that two hunters went missing at Kaw Lake sometime over the weekend.

“In case we don’t come back, @BackroadCRAIG and I are going right through Winter Storm Goliath to kill ducks in Oklahoma”.

Strickland’s six-member Backroad Anthem formed in Arkansas in 2012. Randy Strickland did not immediately return a message at his Oklahoma address seeking comment but said in the online post that Craig’s dog, Sam, had been found. “Hoping against the odds”, the post reads. The fact that the two men knowingly left home during such unsafe weather and that they did so to go hunting has caused ugly criticism to surface on the band’s official Facebook page.

After the search was called for the night on Tuesday (Dec. 29), Strickland’s wife Helen tweeted that she and the rest of his loved ones “are overwhelmed with the love and prayers we have received”. “Our prayers and sympathy go out to the Morland family during this time of loss”.