Volunteer Kevin Shomo, addressing KTVU, described the stunning occurrence that unfurled around 11 a.m. on that Tuesday morning.
"We got one end and we understood it was excessively weighty. So we pulled it sufficiently close to us and we said, 'Gracious amazing, this thing is weighty,'" Kevin Shomo was cited as saying by The Post.
"So we unfastened it … and that is the very thing we found," he said of the grim disclosure of a man stuffed inside "similar to in a fetal position. I was shocked it was a body in there," Shomo said of the unidentified casualty, who had all the earmarks of being in his 30s", he added.
Utilizing little nets, the workers figured out how to recover the bag that was spotted on the edge of Lake Merritt. The items in the bag, notwithstanding, uncovered a troubling and upsetting sight - the dormant body of a killed man covered inside.
Oakland police Commander Alan Yu has affirmed to the New York Post the disclosure, yet it stays muddled when the bag was disposed of at the area.
The examination concerning this upsetting episode is progressing, as specialists work to disentangle the conditions encompassing this grim disclosure by the lake.
"Some portion of the examination is attempting to figure out where the body was might have drifted from. It very well may be any important for the lake, and we're taking a gander at that large number of potential results," Yu told KTVU.
According to The post, cops likewise affirmed to CBS News that "it was being explored as a murder, with the casualty's character kept forthcoming family warning".
"It was at first indistinct on the off chance that the killed man matched anybody revealed as a missing individual", the reports said.
Neighborhood occupants were shocked by the revelation at a spot considered a nearby desert garden with a well known way for sprinters.
"It's truly frightening for me, for a body to be around the local here, it's truly terrifying," witness Angela Massella told KTVU.