GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga.,None — Search crews have found the body of a missing man who was attending a baptism at Lake Lanier.
Friends reported the man missing Saturday night at the Buford Dam Park.
Lt. Eric Eberly, of Gwinnett Fire and Emergency Services, said about 60 people were at the lake for a church baptism service and realized a man was missing from their group. Emergency crews got the call around 8 p.m. and searched the water for about an hour-and-a-half before starting again Sunday morning. Dive crews went into the water three or four times Sunday, focusing on specific areas of the lake near the beach.
Friends said they had last seen the man in the water just past the buoys, but no one could recall seeing him in a two-hour period.
"They just stated that he did not know how to swim and he did not have any flotation device," Eberly said.
On Monday morning, authorities said they had found the body of 33-year-old Ciro Jimenez Beltron near Buford Dam.