Crime & Safety
Police ID Dead Man Found in Car Near I-985
The deceased man was in a car down located down an embankment near Buford, Gwinnett Police said.

Editor’s note: Early news reports indicated two bodies had been found in the I-985 incident. Gwinnett Police reported late Wednesday afternoon one deceased man was discovered.
Gwinnett Police are investigating the discovery of a deceased man found in a car that had left Interstate 985 and crashed down an embankment.
Officers responded around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday in an area on northbound I-985 between I-85 and Buford Drive, near mile marker 1, where Lorenzo Alcaras-Cortez was found dead.
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The 1999 Ford Explorer he was driving had traveled down an embankment and struck several trees. He was wearing his seatbelt, police said.
The fatality was reported after a driver for Willard Wrecker Service noticed the car off the road. The driver returned to the scene, found the man and called police.
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Police aren’t sure when the incident happened, but Gwinnett Police Public Information Officer Cpl. Michele Pihera the man’s wife made a missing person’s report during the weekend.
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