Weiss LakeThe body of Bobby Shore, the Alabama man who went missing in a car crash into Weiss Lake in Cherokee County back in December, was finally recovered Wednesday afternoon in Leesburg, Ala.
Shore was one of seven people in an SUV that plunged into the reservoir on the Coosa River the night of Dec. 13. Two people survived the crash and, with the discovery of Shore’s body, the death toll officially rises to five.
Cherokee County, Ala., Coroner Dr. Jeremy Deaton said Shore’s body was recovered near Aubrey’s Island on the western end of Weiss Lake, less than a mile from the crash site.
Survivors Kim Learned and Brittany Nicole Leslie, who also has been listed in some reports with the last name Hobson, scrambled out of the vehicle along with Shore but the man vanished.
The two women who survived the crash Dec. 13 helped with the identity of Shore’s body this week, Deaton said.