Officials work to ID body believed to be DeKalb car crash victim
Investigators are working to identify the body of a man they believe to be a car crash victim.
The problem is the body is so badly decomposed that authorities couldn’t scan a fingerprint, according to Channel 2 Action News.
The body was found Wednesday in a lake near Ward Lake Road and Bouldercrest Road in south DeKalb County, the news station reported.
Police told Channel 2 they searched the water the day of the crash July 5 but were unable to find the body.
Although they found one victim in the car at the time of the crash, authorities didn’t find the second victim’s decomposed body until a bystander near the lake discovered it about 3 p.m. Wednesday.
Recovery efforts closed nearby roads, Channel 2 reported. But they reopened after crews removed the body from the lake about 5:30 p.m.
No other details were released.
This is the second body found in local water in a matter of weeks.
DeKalb officials said 25-year-old Tekeila Calloway was shot and left in Barbashela Creek on June 28. A man discovered the body while he was walking along the creek with his children. No one has been arrested in that case.