 We now know the name of the man who drowned in Lake Norman over the holiday weekend. 27-year-old Miles Edward Merritt was found around 11 p.m. Saturday, drone-like equipment, finding his body near the sandbar west of the Bethel Church Road Peninsula. Crews called out to that area just before 5 p.m. on July 4th, Merritt having jumped off a boat without a life jacket and began to struggle, efforts by two other people to save him unsuccessful. The search hindered because a lot of boats in that area for the holiday.