A body was found in the Calumet River as rescuers searched for two men who went missing after the car they were riding in plunged into the water on Chicago's South Side as they returned home from an engagement party.
The Chicago Police Department said Wednesday that its marine unit dive teams recovered a man's body from the river just after 10 a.m. "in the area of the original incident." The Cook County Medical Examiner had not released an identification on the body as of Wednesday afternoon.
According to police, surveillance video confirmed the car, which was carrying three people, went into the river around 3:30 a.m. Sunday near the 13600 block of South Calhoun Street.
One passenger in the vehicle, a 26-year-old man, was found at the scene and immediately transported to Trinity Hospital, authorities said. He was discovered walking along Torrence Avenue "wet and confused."
"The victim believes his two friends may still be in the vehicle submerged in the water," police said in a statement at the time.
The vehicle was later recovered from the river but no one was inside.
Davontae Searcy, 23, and Demetrius Hendricks, 26, were previously identified as the missing victims following Sunday's crash.
According to family members, the three men were driving back home from an engagement party.
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