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Body recovered from small lake

By Staff
Posted 2:03PM on Saturday 21st August 2010 ( 14 years ago )
SNELLVILLE - Divers from the Forsyth County Fire Department and members of the Gwinnett Fire Swiftwater Rescue Team, have located the body of the missing man in Lake Lucerne near Snellville.

The body was found about 11:30 Saturday morning in the general area where, according to witnesses, he disappeared Friday.

The victim is 28 and from Atlanta.

"He was on the boat with a friend and her ten year old son," according to Capt. Tommy Rutledge of the Gwinnett County Fire Deprtment. "The woman admitted that the two had consumed alcohol before going out on the boat. They were not wearing life jackets at the time. It is still not clear who owns the boat or how the three came to be on the boat out in the lake."

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