OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - The Latest on two bodies found in an Oakland, California lake (all times local):
4:45 p.m.
Oakland police are investigating the deaths of a couple pulled out of an urban lake as a homicide and an accident.
Investigators say they pulled 39-year-old Michael Grace from Lake Merritt early Thursday. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.
They later found the body of 24-year-old Tayana Johnson in the lake and declared her dead at the scene.
Police say the two had been fighting because Johnson showed signs of physical injuries. Family members say the two were dating.
Johnson’s death is being investigated as a homicide and the death of Grace is being investigated as accidental.
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8:30 a.m.
Officials say a man and a woman pulled out of Lake Merritt in Oakland by emergency crews responding to multiple 911 calls about a couple fighting have both died.
Oakland Battalion Chief Zoraida Diaz tells KTVU the woman’s body was recovered just before 7 a.m. The man had been pulled out of the water earlier and taken to a hospital, where he died at about 8 a.m. Thursday.
Diaz says police and firefighters were called out to the lake by several people who called 911 to report a man and a woman fighting.
A neighbor, who didn’t want to be identified, tells the station she heard the woman at about 4 a.m. yelling “help, help, help.”
Diaz says two of the department’s marine units and a rescue swimmer were deployed to search the lake.
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