A missing man is dead after his body was found in an Upstate lake over the weekend. Pickens County 9-1-1 dispatchers got a call just before 2:30PM, Saturday reporting that a man's body was found in Lake Hartwell.
The Sheriff's Office then responded to the area of R.C. Edwards School Road in Central. The man's remains had since been recovered by the Pickens County Coroner's Office.
The decease has been identified as 27 year old, Swapril Srivastava. He had been reported missing in early December.
His cause and manner of death are still under investigation, as of the time of this report.