A week after a man drowned in a local motel’s swimming pool, authorities still are trying to learn his identity.

The still nameless Hispanic male drowned in the pool at the Homestead Lodge on Peachoid Road last Friday at about 5:25 p.m. He was pulled from the water after being spotted and CPR was performed but efforts to revive him failed.

Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler ruled the death accidental, a result of asphyxiation due to drowning.

But the man’s name remains a mystery.

“Right now, I’m working through Homeland Security and Immigration to see, if perhaps, there is any record on file, any matches that might be there for him,” Fowler said.

The man is believed to have come to the area from Florida about three weeks ago. Fowler said the man was working at a tomato farm on Champion Ferry Road, but no records have been found yet.

The Homestead Lodge, where he was staying, had no name for him either, according to Fowler.

“He was staying with some other folks there, going from room to room,” the coroner said.

Asked what would happen if the man’s identity isn’t learned, Fowler replied, “We will exhaust every effort we have before we get into that. Obviously, we would take care of him. But at this point, we’re not there.”

Fowler had said last Saturday that toxicology tests were being performed to determine if alcohol or drugs played any role in the man’s death.

According to a report at the Gaffney Police Department, video surveillance of the pool area captured the man’s drowning.

The video starts with footage of the man walking into the gated pool area and police said it appeared the man made several attempts to open the gate before he was successful.

“The (man) then walked down toward the deep end of the pool and he sat down in a chair,“ Officer Michael Scruggs wrote in the report. “The victim started trying to take his pants off and after trying for a minute or so, he stood up and walked toward the pool and grabbed the pool ladder.”

According to Scruggs’ report: “At that time, the subject used his right leg to take his pants leg off his left leg, then used his left leg to get his right leg out. After the victim removed his pants he then jumped into the pool.”

Scruggs wrote that the video shows the man went about six feet away from the side of the pool and then turned back toward the ladder.

“After about 10 to 15 seconds the subject goes under the water,” Scruggs wrote.

The video showed the man went into the pool at 5:18 p.m. and went under the water at 5:19 p.m. The man was seen and pulled out of the pool at 5:26 p.m.