Family devastated after body of missing Southern University student pulled from Lake Pontchartrain
Marquise Jones family speaks out By Kimberly Curth | March 12, 2021 at 5:32 PM CST - Updated March 12 at 5:32 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) -A Slidell family is devastated after authorities pulled the body of a missing Southern University student out of Lake Pontchartrain Thursday.
When Marquise Jones, 21, went missing, the NOPD said it was investigating the possibility of foul play in his disappearance.
Now, his family asks for help finding out what happened to him. Jones was a nursing student on the Dean’s List at Southern University in Baton Rouge. He was last seen the night of February 26, leaving a party on Onzaga Street in Gentilly.
A Southern University student was found dead in Lake Pontchartrain on Thursday afternoon after being missing for two weeks.
The family of 21-year-old Marquise Jones confirmed the body as it was pulled from the lake by Jefferson Parish Sheriff s Office deputies.
The body was in waters in New Orleans when it was recovered so the New Orleans Police Department has since taken over the investigation into the death.
Jones was last seen on the night of February 26, when he dropped food off at his mother s home in Slidell. Friends of Jones said he came to a house party that same night and left around 11:30 pm.