Officials in Carroll County have found and identified the body of a boater who went underwater Monday and did not resurface.
Emergency rescue crews pulled 40-year-old Charlie W. Queen’s body from Lake Buckhorn about 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, Carroll Coroner Keith Hancock confirmed.
Queen’s body was found near a dam in the same general area of where he was last seen before going underwater, Carroll sheriff’s office spokeswoman Ashley Hulsey told AJC.com.
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Crews had been searching the lake for Queen since Monday afternoon. Hulsey said the sheriff’s office received a call about 12:30 p.m. that a man had “jumped off a boat to retrieve an item but didn’t resurface.”
Lake Buckhorn is located about 45 miles west of Atlanta.
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