July 3, 2022 The death of a San Pablo father marked the second drowning in Lake Berryessa in six days, the Napa County Sheriff’s Office said. Napa County Sheriff’s Office / Facebook A San Pablo man drowned Sunday afternoon while rescuing his son in the water at Lake Berryessa – the second drowning at the lake in six days, the Napa County Sheriff’s Office said. Marciallo Perez, 35, was unable to swim back to shore after helping his son, who survived, the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post. Perez’s body was recovered about an hour after he entered the water around 3 p.m Perez, like 16-year-old victim Demetrio Perriatt on June 27, drowned in the Oak Shores area of the reservoir. Perriatt, a high school baseball star in Fairfield, drowned while taking out his raft. Oak Shores was a particularly deadly area of the popular recreation spot. Before Perez’s death, Perriatt was the 11th drowning victim in Lake Berryessa since 2019, KTVU reported, citing information from the sheriff’s office. Perez would have been the seventh drowning victim in Oak Shores during that time. “Reminder, PLEASE wear a life jacket when in a boat or in/near water,” the sheriff’s office’s Facebook post said. Greg Keraghosian is an SFGATE homepage editor. Before joining SFGATE in 2016, he was an associate editor at Yahoo Travel. Born in San Francisco, raised in the Los Angeles area, and graduated from the University of Southern California.
