ATCEMS: Dead body found floating in Lady Bird Lake

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin-Travis EMS reported that medics found a dead body Thursday in Lady Bird Lake.

ATCEMS tweeted at 2:46 p.m. that medics went to check on someone floating in the water and that the person was "possibly deceased." At 3:19 p.m., ATCEMS tweeted an update confirming the person was dead.

As of ATCEMS' most recent update, crews were "working on recovery and relocation of the victim back to shore."

The Austin Police Department said its homicide division is responding to the scene and that the body could have been in the lake for "a couple days."