 July is going to be hotter than ever because you get up to $50 off any smartphone at Appalachian Wireless to your agreement required. Better service, bigger savings, that's today's Appalachian Wireless, an East Kentucky network company. 24-year-old Richard Mullins Jr. of Jenkins died Sunday after a rip current carried him into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Holden Beach, North Carolina. Mullins was swimming with several other people when the group was taken in the current Sunday afternoon. The other swimmers were rescued. Mullins was found dead late Sunday evening by a passerby on the beach. Near where he had been swept away, his body was found after an extensive search and rescue operation had been conducted. Mullins' father, also named Richard Mullins, announced his son's death in a Facebook post late Sunday. I can't imagine heartbreaking to get the news of something like that happening to one of your kids, but to be an 11-hour drive away and if dad has disabilities as well, I don't know if his dad can even drive now or not and he was extremely upset. John Wyatt, a family friend of the Mullins family, said Richard Jr. had moved to the Holden Beach area in search of a new start. Richard was a junior, the deceased was a wonderful young man, I was real close to him, he hung out with my kids, distant cousins of his when he was teenage years and very talented welder, he was a talented tattoo artist, he had left to your understanding is, he had left here with a friend and was going to make Holden Beach his home and get a job there and settle down and put some of the issues here behind him that most all the teenagers have, you know, as we're growing up and looking for a new start in life and it's a real sad enjoying the day on the beach and tragically, you know, something like this happened. A tragic end to the life of a young man looking to start anew. Couldn't just can't comprehend the sadness that made me feel. In Jenkins, Chris Anderson, EKB News.