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UGA officer drowns in lake

A University of Georgia police officer drowned at a family gathering on Lake Sinclair on Labor Day, a Hancock County official said Tuesday.

Tyler Harris, 24, apparently had been drinking with other relatives during a holiday gathering at the family's lakeside home when he went under the water and never came back up, according to Ricky Brown, an investigator with the Hancock County Sheriff's Department.

"The family was just out enjoying the water and swimming off the dock when someone noticed that after Tyler jumped in, he hadn't surfaced for two to three minutes," Brown said.

Family members frantically searched the water, and after finding Harris took him to the shore where they tried CPR, according to Brown.

Someone called 911 at 1:16 a.m., but Tyler was dead by the time rescue workers got there, he said.

Harris and other relatives had gotten together for a Labor Day party at the home on Chickasaw Trail, in an unincorporated area of Hancock County, according to Brown.

Lake Sinclair, which covers more than 15,000 acres in Putnam, Baldwin and Hancock counties, is a man-made waterway ow

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