Friday August 29th, 2025 3:39PM

Teenager electrocuted at Lake Lanier

By The Associated Press
<p>A Forsyth County teenager was electrocuted after apparently grabbing an exposed wire as he stood in the water working on a personal watercraft at Lake Lanier, authorities said Tuesday.</p><p>Tyler Howarth, 15, was beside a metal dock at his family's lake home at the time of the accident Monday, sheriff's department spokeswoman Karleen Chalker said.</p><p>Two friends on the dock told investigators that Howarth fell back and under the dock. The friends, also 15, tried to pull Tyler from the water but were also shocked, Chalker said.</p><p>The boy's father arrived, jumped in and pulled his son from the lake and began CPR, but the teen was pronounced dead at Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Chalker said.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x1cd9678)</p>
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