{"id":746744,"date":"2026-07-06T16:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/746744\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T16:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:08:11","slug":"drowning-victim-at-georgias-lake-allatoona-on-july-4-weekend-identified-wsb-tv-channel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/746744\/","title":{"rendered":"Drowning victim at Georgia&#8217;s Lake Allatoona on July 4 weekend identified &#8211; WSB-TV Channel 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">BARTOW COUNTY, Ga. \u2014 A metro Atlanta man was identified as the drowning victim state and local law enforcement and emergency responders searched for at Lake Allatoona on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">According to the Georgia department of Natural Resources, game wardens and members of Bartow County Fire\/Rescue responded to the lake near Glade Marina after 28-year-old Fidel Ojwang, of Lilburn, went off the back of a ski boat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/bartow-county\/man-missing-allatoona-lake-authorities-say\/QNCO43APEZFCHONU3GXXUNZMOI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/bartow-county\/man-missing-allatoona-lake-authorities-say\/QNCO43APEZFCHONU3GXXUNZMOI\/\">Channel 2 Action News was at the lake<\/a> to report on the search on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Officials said he went under the wat er and did not resurface, so responders started searching with a boat-mounted SONAR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The search continued until just after midnight Monday, when game wardens found and recovered Ojwang\u2019s remains and brought him to the Bartow county Coroner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/smart-tv\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wsbtv.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BARTOW COUNTY, Ga. \u2014 A metro Atlanta man was identified as the drowning victim state and local law&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[320537,4,450,1746,11741,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-746744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-allatoona","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-dnr","tag-drowning","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}