MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservative Commission has identified the two people found dead on Ward Lake in Manatee County over a two-day period.
On Tuesday, FWC identified the two people as 36-year-old Wayne Raber and four-year-old Josiah Raber.
Officials tell 10 Tampa Bay that both were from Wilmot, Ohio, but they did not confirm if the two were related.
The previous story is below.
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating after finding two people dead on Ward Lake in Manatee County.
Officials from FWC say they responded to a call of a single-vessel boating incident on Saturday behind the water treatment plant in the area. When they arrived, along with the Manatee County Sheriff's Office, they found one person dead in the water near a vessel.
On Monday, FWC reportedly found a second person dead in the water in the same area the first body was found.
The investigation into this incident is still ongoing.
