DOOLY COUNTY, Ga. — A man is dead after falling into Lake Blackshear according to Dooly County Deputy Coroner Braxton Warren.
He says it happened on Saturday around 6 p.m. Crisp County 911 received the call about a person falling off a boat and possibly drowning.
Warren says a man was fishing with his son on the lake when he had a medical emergency and fell off the boat.
The son maneuvered the boat closer to his father and held onto him until emergency personnel arrived.
The man was taken to Crisp Regional Hospital where he later died.
A for the man has not been released but Braxton says the man was in his 50s.
Several state and local agencies responded to the incident.
13WMAZ will update with more information as it becomes available.
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