Marble Falls officer asks for leniency for boater who almost killed him

MARBLE FALLS, Texas (KXAN) — A Marble Falls police officer was violently thrown into the water on July 4, 2015, as an intoxicated boater tore through the officer’s police boat.
Capt. Ted Young was on Lake Marble Falls with his wife — his emergency lights on — when the crash happened. Young landed in the water, with a broken shoulder, fractured vertebra of the spine, several broken ribs, a lacerated spleen and bleeding in his brain. His life preserver,