Teenager found dead Sunday afternoon after pleasure boat carrying him and five others capsized a day earlier off the coast of Sonoma County was a high school football lineman and victim of a 2017 mass shooting in Rancho Tehama.

A search team found the body of Johnny Phommathep II, 17, of Corning, in the waters near Bodega Bay around noon Sunday, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office.

Phommathep was one of six people aboard a 21-foot Bayliner pleasure boat that took off around 3 p.m. Saturday from the boat ramp at Westside Regional Park in Bodega Bay.

Saturday was the first day of Dungeness crab recreational season and the group, which included five family members and a family friend, was crabbing.

The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office Coroner’s Office identified Phommathep Monday evening but did not confirm the relationship between the family members.

A GoFundMe Memorial Fundraiser However, the investigation launched for Phommathep’s family identifies three of the victims as a father and two sons.

Shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday, a person connected to the group called authorities to report the boat, which was due to return around 7 p.m., missing. Coastal officers rang the cell phone of one of the boaters and he returned about 7 miles from Carmet Beach.

Authorities from several agencies, including the sheriff’s office, Coast Guard and California Air National Guard, searched the area Saturday evening and all day Sunday. Authorities located Phommathep’s body and found an 11-year-old boy alive.

The 11-year-old boy somehow made it to Highway 1 Sunday morning where a motorist found him. He was transported to a local hospital.

The other four people on board the boat are still missing, although the search has since been suspended. According to GoFundMe, two of them are Phommathep’s father, a military veteran and volunteer firefighter, as well as his brother.

The person who created the GoFundMe identified herself as a school secretary at Rancho Tehama Elementary School and a family friend.

“I’m raising funds to help Tiffany, a loving wife and mother, put her husband and two sons to rest after a tragic boating accident on November 2 in Bodega Bay,” reads the fundraising description. of funds. “I’m also trying to raise money to help Tiffany support her newborns and surviving children.”

Phommathep was a lineman on the Corning High School football team, team roster shows. He was also shot twice in the calf during a 2017 mass shooting that killed five people in Rancho Tehama, according to the Los Angeles Times.

His mother, Tiffany, was driving him and two of his brothers to school on the morning of November 14, 2017, when the shooter, Kevin Janson Neal, came up from behind, hit their van and stopped on the driver’s side all while pulling. a gun.

Phommathep’s mother, Tiffany Phommathep, was shot in the torso and four times in the back of the left shoulder. One bullet narrowly missed his heart while the other lodged in his intestine.

Tiffany Phommathep used her body to protect Johnny Phommathep II, who was in the front seat. Her 6-year-old son was shot in the foot and her 2-year-old son was cut by glass.

The boat carrying Johnny Phommathep II in Sonoma County on Saturday was one of the two that sank since Saturday.

On Sunday, a hiker witnessed a boat carrying two men capsizes near Mussel Point. A man was found unconscious and pronounced dead after firefighters attempted to save his life.

The second man has not yet been found.

You can contact staff writer Madison Smalstig at [email protected]. On X (Twitter) @madi.smals.