Emergency crews recover person who jumped off a Lake Norman dock and never resurfaced

Emergency crews recovered a person from Lake Norman late Wednesday outside a NASCAR Hall of Famer’s Cornelius waterfront mansion that’s under construction.

“The missing person was recovered this evening,” the Huntersville Fire Department said on Twitter at 11:45 p.m. “Please pray for the family, friends and co-workers.”

Cornelius firefighters and police were dispatched to an address on Brigadoon Place around 4 p.m., Cornelius-Lemley Fire Rescue said in a Facebook post Thursday. The Huntersville and East Lincoln fire departments and Sherrills Ford-Terrell Fire & Rescue also were called to assist in the search for the “missing swimmer.”

Responding departments “were notified about a subject that had jumped off of a dock and had not resurfaced,” according to the Cornelius-Lemley Fire and Rescue Facebook post.

NASCAR Hall of Fame crew chief Ray Evernham owns a home at the address, according to Mecklenburg County public records. A mansion is under construction there, multiple media outlets at the scene reported.

A spokesman for Mooresville-based Ray Evernham Enterprises declined comment.

A Cornelius Police incident report obtained by The Charlotte Observer says only that an officer responded to the address “in reference to a missing subject in Lake Norman. Upon further investigation a known subject was found to be deceased.”

Police will release the name of the person recovered from the lake after family members are notified, Cornelius Police Capt. Jennifer Thompson told the Observer on Thursday.

A fireboat ran sonar where the person went missing “and just under one hour later obtained a point of interest” for Sherrills Ford-Terrell Fire & Rescue to send its remotely operated underwater vehicledown to investigate, Cornelius-Lemley Fire and Rescue said on Facebook.

“We ask that you keep the families and friends in your thoughts and prayers,” according to the Cornelius-Lemley Fire and Rescue Facebook post.