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Body of missing man pulled from Neponset River in Hyde Park
Dive teams had been searching the river since the man was reported missing on Monday.
Authorities recovered the body of a missing man Wednesday, two days after beginning to search the Neponset River for him.
Members of the Massachusetts State Police Special Emergency Response Team located the man’s body at about 1:10 p.m. Wednesday. He was found in the river near the Dana Avenue Bridge in Hyde Park, police said.
Officials did not release the identity of the man. They only said that he was a 60-year-old who lived in a nearby homeless encampment.
Members of the Massachusetts State Police Dive Team and Boston Fire Department Dive Team pulled his body from the river.
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A search kicked off on Monday at about 7:30 a.m., when two other men who lived with him in the encampment said that they found his walker and other personal items along the shoreline of the river near B Street.
An investigation is ongoing, and no other information was released.
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