Five People Drown in Eight Days on Lake

Five people drowned in eight days on Lake Lanier during July:

  • July 4th: Lung Mang (21) and Tha Thang (23) jumped in the lake to push their rented pontoon boat off a sandbar during a late-night rainstorm.
  • July 4th: Aeriel Cotuc Chaudjay (17) drowned off Lanier Beach South. The teen apparently waded from shallow water into an area with a 15-foot drop-off.
  • July 4th: A 4-year-old boy from East Meadow, N.Y. had been wading in shallow water and fell off into deep water and was unable to swim
  • July 12th: Michael Abram (49) was fishing with friends near Holiday Marina when he left the boat and go swimming.

Lanier saw eight drownings in all of 2007 and seven in 2006.

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