TEMPLE, Texas — Temple police identified the body of a man Thursday who was found in Belton Lake at Temple Lake Park.
Police said Kristian Garcia Cruz, 30, was found Wednesday afternoon after crashing his car into the water.
Police were initially called around 9 a.m. after getting reports that a Nissan Versa went through guard posts on the access roads then straight into the water.
It took police around two hours to pull the car out of the water thanks to the help of Temple Towing using a skid steer.
During the investigation, police were told that the owner of the vehicle had not been heard from for several hours.
Out of an abundance of caution, the Temple Police Department and Texas Parks and Wildlife used a sonar scanner to survey a larger area of the lake. It was during the secondary search that police found Cruz's body.