A personal chef for US former president Barack Obama drowned Sunday in a paddle board accident near Obama's home in Martha's Vineyard.
The body of Tafari Campbell, 45, was recovered from Edgartown Great Pond on the southern coast of the vacation island by Massachusetts State Police on Monday after a fellow paddleboarder reported he had gone into the water and not resurfaced.
Emergency crews were unable to find him through the evening, though his body was eventually recovered using sonar, reports AFP.
Obama and his wife Michelle Obama, were not present at the house at the time of the accident.
Tafari Campbell worked as a sous chef at the White House during the Obama presidency, and was hired when the Obamas departed to join their household staff.
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