A man was found dead in Lake Lanier near the Six Mile Creek boat ramp Thursday evening, according to Forsyth County authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What Happened?:<\/strong> Deputies responded to a 911 call about a body floating in the water around 6:30 p.m. Forsyth County firefighters pulled the man to shore, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What We Know:<\/strong> Investigators identified the man as 56-year-old Murtuza Sayani of Lilburn. Authorities say the death was intentional, and no foul play is suspected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What\u2019s Next:<\/strong> No further details have been released. If you or someone you know needs help, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is available at 988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=2]\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A man was found dead in Lake Lanier near the Six Mile Creek boat ramp Thursday evening, according to Forsyth County authorities. What Happened?: Deputies responded to a 911 call about a body floating in the water around 6:30 p.m. Forsyth County firefighters pulled the man to shore, where he was pronounced dead. What We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":23728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8664,17327],"class_list":["post-218122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-lake-lanier","tag-murtuza-sayani","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}