A Western North Carolina man is dead after a boating accident over the weekend at an Upstate lake. The Oconee County Coroner's Office says, a man apparently fell from a boat into Hartwell Lake, Saturday afternoon.
The deceased has been identified as 62 year old, Rodney Lyle Palmer of Maggie Valley. The Coroner's report says Palmer had dropped his son and a friend off on the shoreline, so they could deer hunt. Palmer told them he was going to fish.
When the son and his friend came out of the woods they saw the boat in the water unoccupied. The Coroner's Office says Palmer died sometime between 3 and 5PM, Saturday.



