The Georgia Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Division has identified the man who drowned in Lake Lanier over the weekend as Jose Camarillo of Stone Mountain.
Camarillo drowned near Margaritaville at Lake Lanier Islands in Hall County Sunday afternoon.
Game wardens located the 20-year-old using side-scan sonar. Hall County Fire and Rescue recovered his body.
Georgia DNR spokesperson Mark McKinnon says four people drowned on Georgia waterways over the long Memorial Day weekend. Including a 5-year-old boy who drowned in Lake Allatoona.
Witnesses said Kaiden Franklin was playing on a float before he disappeared. Franklin was a student at Model Elementary School in Rome and had just graduated from kindergarten.
According to DNR, reports at least eight people died on Georgia’s waterways over the long Memorial Day holiday weekend.
