RedactedNarrative: On June 12, 2016 at approximately 1930 hours I, Ranger First Class (RFC)  with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources-Law Enforcement Division (GA DNR-LED) was contacted by Lieutenant (LT)  about a fatal boat incident on Lake Lanier.  LT assigned me as the Critical Incident Reconstruction Team (CIRT) case agent for the incident and told me that there was not any need to respond to the scene that evening.  LT told me that the incident had occurred in Forsyth County and that Sergeant (SGT) was on the scene with several other officers gathering information.  I contacted SGT and spoke briefly with him about the incident.  SGT and I arranged to meet the following morning so that he could give me the witness statements he had obtained.  (Witness statements and the supplemental reports of the assisting officers are attached to this report.)
  
  	On June 13, 2016 I met with SGT near his residence.  SGT gave me the information that he had obtained from the previous evening.  SGT had arranged for RFC to meet with me to go and interview the occupants from the boat incident.  I met RFC at the state patrol post in Forsyth County.  Based on the information that was obtained from the previous night we went to the home of the boat operator.  There we were able to interview and obtain written statements from passengers on the boat when the incident occurred.  Their statements had to be translated from Hebrew to English;  Subject is not a certified translator.  Operator, we discovered, is the ex-wife of the victim.  Operator was in extreme emotional distress and was not able to provide us with a statement.  We were told that Victim was here from Maryland visiting Operator and their children.  Operator was in the process of getting things together to travel back to Israel for Victim's funeral.
  
  	On June 14, 2016 I went to the GA DNR impound lot at Aqua Land Marina to photograph and process the  boat.  I had been told by SGT that the throttle position and motor trim had been altered from their position when the boat was seized.  This was necessary to load the boat onto the trailer for storage.  I obtained the boat information and went to the Hall County Magistrate's Office to get the search warrant. Once I obtained the warrant, I went back to process the boat but could not due to stormy weather.  I did take 3 pair of sunglasses and a watch from the boat and kept them in my truck as they were the only items of value in the boat.  I also looked over the outside of the boat, especially around the propeller for any perishable evidence but did not locate any.
  
  	I was unable to return to photograph the boat until June 21, 2016.  That morning I met RFCs at the impound lot.  Both Rangers turned over information to me that that they had obtained from their involvement in the initial response to the incident.  RFC assisted me with photographing, processing, and documenting evidence on Victim's boat.  I finished by placing a copy of the search warrant in the glove box of the boat.  Later that afternoon I completed the return of service on the warrant at the Hall County Magistrate's Office.
  
  	In review of all the evidence that has been available to me or discovered throughout the course of the investigation, I concluded that Operator ran over Victim due to operator inexperience.  According to statements the friends had been out on the lake tubing. Operator was towing Victim on the tube in circles creating a large wake.  There had also been large wakes created by passing boats in the area according to the written statements.  Witness were sitting on the beach near the area where the incident had occurred. Victim had been either thrown or fallen off of the tube and Operator was pulling back up to pick him up; he would have been on the starboard side as Operator approached. 
  
  Two subjects had also said that when Operator was approaching Victim the boat was riding with the bow up or plowing. This would greatly reduce Operator's visibility as she approached Victim. As Operator was approaching, Subject1 sitting directly behind Operator, yelled to get her attention as to how close she was to Victim. The photographic evidence of the boat only shows minor damage done to the propeller. I do not know if all the damage was caused from Victim's contact with the propeller or not. There appeared to be some biological matter, possibly tissue, embedded in the edges of the propeller. (See photographs 219-239) There was no sample taken or needed as it can be expected that the biological matter is from Victim. The only evidence of significance that RFC and I noticed was on the bottom of the boat hull. There is evidence of finger and hand marks on the bottom of the hull. These marks, similar to that when you run your hand across a dirty car hood for example, begin on the starboard side of the boat approximately 6 feet 6 inches from the bow. We tried to the best of our ability to photograph and document these transfers on the bottom of the hull. We did mark the direction that Victim would have traveled under the boat from the starboard side to the port side. These were the defensive actions that Victim was trying to take to get out from under the boat. There was a larger clean/marked area under the boat that appeared to be turning in a counter clockwise or left direction. This is likely to have been caused from when operator reacted to Subject1 yelling at her as she was too close to Victim. (See photographs 279-295) Based on these discoveries it appears that Victim could see that Operator was going to run over him and tried to get out of the way. As he went under the starboard side of the boat, feet first, he was pushing with his hands trying to get the boat off of him. Something, whether it was Subject1 yelling at Operator or the wake of the passing boats, caused the boat to turn left. This left turn, in an attempt to not run over Victim, would have put Victim in the direct path of the propeller. In viewing the photos of RFC Goss, the majority of Victim's trauma came about mid abdomen and up to the head. Victim suffered a severe laceration to left side of his neck and jaw area extending to behind his left ear. There is also a severe laceration to his scalp; his left arm, at the elbow, was nearly severed.
  
  Two subjects said that they felt Victim go under the boat. After the incident, Subject2 jumped into the water to try and save Victim. Everyone began screaming for help. Good samaritan was on the beach nearby and went out in his jon boat to help. Good samaritan said that he helped pull a male that had been hit by a boat into his boat. Good samaritan said that he left the guy in the water, Subject2, with multiple life jackets. Good samaritan said he headed back to Little Ridge Park with the victim and met the responding emergency personnel. Due to the severity of the trauma that Victim suffered it appears that there is nothing that could have been done to save his life. Subject3 said in her statement that she, "watched Good samaritan pull a limp body in his jon boat." By the time that RFC and others arrived on scene, Fire and Rescue personnel had already determined that Victim was deceased. The coroner was called a short time later.
  
  On July 30, 2016 I sat down and spoke with subjects about the incident. They both said that Victim was on the right side, starboard, of the boat as Operator was approaching him. I gave the sunglasses and watch that I retrieved from the boat to subject2; a pair of sunglasses and the watch belonged to Victim. I had spoken with Subject1 earlier about having Operator contact me to provide a written statement or conducting a recorded interview. Subject1 told me that Operator had left and been in Israel since Victim's funeral and had no intentions of coming back to the United States. On August 5, 2016 I received a call from Operator but was unable to talk to her at that time. Operator said that she was willing to recount the events from that day and we agreed to talk by phone on August 6, 2016. I tried to contact Operator several times on that day with no success.
  
  All the information contained in the above report is based solely on evidence found or made known to the reporting officer. It is also based on the written and/or recorded statements of witnesses and officers on the scene of the incident. The Good samaritans and subject4 were not included as witnesses in this report but their statement were included as to their involvement
  rendering aid and assistance during this matter and to account for events that may have contributed to this incident. This report can and will be supplemented if any additional information is made known or discovered by the reporting officer. At this time there is nothing further to report.