Friends remember artist who drowned after jumping into Allatoona Lake

A close friend of a young man who drowned after jumping off a boat on Allatoona Lake over the Fourth of July weekend, says she and another who were on the boat at time can’t believe what happened.

“It was a split second. Everything was okay and it’s, ‘Where’s Omil?’ He just went down in the water, no fight, nothing, he just sunk,” Narji Njau told Channel 2’s Tom Regan.

Department of Natural Resources and Bartow County arrived on the afternoon of July 5. They searched for days using sonar equipment…

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