70. VCSO: 56-year-old man found dead in water-filled pit in Osteen
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Headline Surfer® graphic / The locator map at left shows the area south of the 500 block of Osteen-Maytown Road where the body of a man was found floating in shallow water on Aug. 1, 2014. OSTEEN, Fla -- A body found floating in a water-filled pit on a Saturday afternoon on the first day of August turned out to be that of a homeless man who was spotted by a bystander.
The victim was identified as 56-year-old Robert Lewis Williams, a Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman said.
Witnesses said they saw Willims going into the shallow water, perhaps to cool off from the hot Florida sun the afternoon before.
"Williams (had) family who live close by where the body was found, but he had no known permanent address," Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said.
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