Searchers find body of man reported missing at Potato Creek State Park

 

NORTH LIBERTY, Ind. -- Indiana Conservation Officers have located the body of the Elkhart man who disappeared Sunday evening at Potato Creek State Park.

Jose Eduardo Garcia Garcia, 35 was on a paddle boat with two others Sunday evening when storms rolled in causing him to fall into the water.

Several agencies searched the water until it was too dark Sunday evening.

Indiana Conservation Officers resumed the search at 6 a.m. Monday. They used sonar technology to look at the bottom of the water.

Garcia's body was located around 3 p.m. Monday.