As the investigation into the death of Illinois University University graduate student Jelani Day goes on, the time it took to find and identify the body looms larger, as potential evidence external to the body may have washed away while he was in the Illinois River.
LaSalle County Coroner Rich Ploch said the office received the results Wednesday, but he declined to comment on the report’s content “due to the ongoing investigation.”
An Illinois law firm has been retained to represent the family of the three men who were killed in an explosion near Starved Rock State Park last Thursday.