Drowned Man’s Relatives Sought

The Orange County coroner’s office is asking the public’s help in locating the family of a drowning victim to notify his family members that he is dead.

The man, who has not been positively identified, drowned on Aug. 27 in a lake at Centennial Regional Park. Officials said they have been unable to find his relatives. He is believed to have been 27 years old.

On the day that the man drowned, he was pulled out of the water by a Santa Ana man about 3:30 p.m. He was taken to Fountain Valley Regional Hospital and Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, officials said.

He was wearing faded blue jeans, black ankle boots, white socks and a brown belt at the time of his death. He had short brown hair and was cleanshaven. He had swum about 80 feet into the middle of the lake when he apparently got tired and sank 18 feet to the bottom, police said.

According to authorities, the man had immunization records in his possession with one name, but when his fingerprints were checked, his name came up Oscar P. Zamora, a man who had been cited for a traffic violation in Downey, according to Deputy Coroner Cullen Ellingburgh.

He said that the address listed on the police file did not exist.

Also, Ellingburgh said, the man’s fingerprints matched those of a Jose Moreno who had been treated and released at a Riverside hospital for abdominal pains.

“Every time we run him, we get a new name with a nonexistent address,” Ellingburgh said. “He may be a transient who has no family, but he must have had some friends or contacts.”

Anyone having information about the man is asked to call the coroner’s office at (714) 647-7410.