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Search continues for missing swimmer on Alabama island
May 3, 2021
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DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (AP) Authorities continue to search for a Mississippi student who went missing Sunday while swimming in the Gulf of Mexico at Alabama s Dauphin Island.
The U.S. Coast Guard tells local news outlets that Rob Brent is a student at the University of Southern Mississippi.
The Coast Guard says Brent was reported missing around 6 p.m. Sunday after last being seen near a sandbar on the island s west end. Coast Guard boats and aviation units were looking for Brent Monday, as was the Mobile County sheriff s flotilla, Dauphin Island emergency responders and the Alabama Marine Patrol. All-terrain vehicles are combing shorelines.
Investigators identify body found off Causeway The man found dead in the Blakeley River on Jan. 2 has been identified as Joshua Pettigrew of Jackson, Miss. Baldwin County Sheriff s Office Posted
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SPANISH FORT – Baldwin County investigators identified the person found dead in water off the Mobile Bay Causeway as Joshua Pettigrew, 28, of Jackson, Miss.
Investigators do not believe that Pettigrew’s death was a homicide, but are still working to determine how the victim died.
On Jan. 2, Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to a site near Meaher Park when a body was found in shallow water near the Blakeley River. The Alabama Marine Patrol and Daphne Search and Rescue The person had been dead for several days, according to Sheriff’s Office reports.