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Man goes missing on Ogeechee
Deputy: Victim was swimming with others
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Jerald Hughes, far left, and Douglas Bragg of the Sylvania Marine and Rescue Squadron search with teams of conservation rangers with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources for a 24-year-old possible drowning victim on the Ogeechee River at Halcyondale Landing in Screven County Tuesday. Eight agencies participated in the search went on late Tuesday evening and resumed Wednesday morning.
Lightning flashed Tuesday as searchers combed the Ogeechee River, seeking a man believed to have drowned near Halcyondale Landing in Screven County. As dusk approached, a dive team from Burke County entered the water near the spot where a 24-year-old man disappeared, Bulloch County Public Safety Director Ted Wynn said. An officer at the scene told the Statesboro Herald the victim is Antonio Lee, a man with Down syndrome.