BSO investigating after body found in Weston lake
MIAMI - A death investigation is underway after a body was found floating in a canal.
"Four times yesterday, four-time, I drove past here and I would have never thought in a million years he was here in the water," Greg Parker a family member of the victim, 46-year-old Jermaine Jones.
"We were just at the house, he got on the bike and he left out and this was actually Friday and I called him all day yesterday and I couldn't get him on the phone. I tried to do a search through the police system to see if he got pulled over on the bike and nothing and then this morning the police came and knocked on the door", Parker went on.
Officials say Jones was riding a motorcycle when he lost control and landed in a lake near the intersection of Bonaventure Boulevard and Racket Club Road in Weston. Investigators even placed white lines in the area to show the path the bike took before landing in the water.
"I heard a noise and I wasn't sure what it was, it sounded like a loud engine and then to come to find out this morning that it was a person on a motorcycle. It was sad I was really sad, we looked out the window and there he was," said a neighbor who only wanted to be identified as Nick.
We're told Broward County Regional Communications received a call reporting a body floating in the water. Sheriff's Office dive team and Fire Rescue responded and paramedics pronounced the victim Jermaine Jones deceased on scene.
"It was early in the morning I thought something happened but you know it's dark and you don't know and I wish I had gone right around the corner here and looked behind the hedges and looked," Nick went on.
And as neighbors replay the incident family members and friends says Jones will be missed and they have advice for others.
"We come from the worst of the worst and for him to not be here for something so simple that could have been avoided, so if I can say anything to anybody it's to be careful when you're out," said Parker.
