Body of missing boater found during search of Albany pond
From staff reports
ALBANY — The body of a man whose boat overturned during a Thursday-morning fishing outing at a pond in Albany has been recovered.
Dougherty County Coroner Michael Fowler identified the victim as Gary Bernard Randle, 58. The cause of the death was drowning, the coroner said.
The body was recovered shortly before 6 p.m. after a search that lasted about five hours and included the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and Albany Fire Department.
“A couple of guys were fishing on a pond and flipped the boat,” Capt. Rick Sellars, supervisor of the Region 5 Georgia DNR Law Enforcement Office headquartered in Albany, said. “One of them got out.”
The boater went missing in a holding pond located behind Mt. Zion Baptist Church near the intersection of Oakridge Drive and Westover Boulevard, where the two men had been fishing at the time the jon boat overturned.
The Albany Police Department received a call at about 11:43 a.m. from the boater who was able to swim to safety, police Public Information Officer Sylah Ferguson said.
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