Lake Burton Drowning Victim identified

The Lake Burton drowning victim has been identified.  Around 10:30pm on Sunday, June 28, 2020, Game Wardens with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources were dispatched to just north of Governor’s Cove for a man who jumped into the lake and didn’t resurface.  Dive teams from Towns County and Oconee County, South Carolina recovered the body of 57-year-old Keith Hill of Gainesville, Virginia around 1:30pm.  The incident has been classified as an accidental drowning.