CONROE, Texas — After searching from daylight to dark since Saturday, search crews found two drowning victims in Lake Conroe Tuesday.
A team with Montgomery County Precinct One and Texas game wardens began searching for them Friday evening. A volunteer in a seaplane also joined the search Tuesday.
The young couple was on a rented pontoon boat with three other people and had stopped near Ayers Island.
They said 26-year-old Nizigiyimana Peragie, of Houston, fell overboard.
The woman's 24-year-old boyfriend, identified by authorities as Nsengiyumva Adrien of Houston, jumped in the water to help her. Witnesses said both were struggling when a second man jumped in the water to try and save them.
The couple went under and didn’t surface again
The second man was pulled out of the water by a passerby in another boat.
Adrien's body was recovered Tuesday morning around 9 a.m. about 50 yards from where they were last seen. Searchers found Peragie this afternoon.
Investigators said none of the people on the boat knew how to swim.
Texas Parks and Wildlife, Montgomery County ESD 1, Montgomery County Precinct 1 Search and Recovery Team, Conroe Fire Department and the Montgomery County Hospital District helped with the search.